185 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-185.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 24 more places -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
22 23
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 171, 172 and 173.
It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 171, 172 and 173.