160 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-94, snare through bars 95-96, hi-hat through bars 97-112, ride through bars 113-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-148, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-14, 45-46 and 56-62, and 10 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
7 8
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---x-----|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 63, 72, 86, 96, 104 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
170 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.
55 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.
160 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 63, 72, 86, 96, 104 and 6 more.