159 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
51 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 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, toms through bars 26-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 52-54 and 56-58, and 15 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 19, 23, 26, 27, 35 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
174 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.
51 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 19, 23, 26, 27, 35 and 17 more.