131 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
48 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, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, snare through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-41 and snare through bars 42-43, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 37 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
13
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |g-g-g-g-g-----g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
171 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.
48 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.
131 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.