80 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 1:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-48 and ride through bars 49-50, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20 and 29-48 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
181 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.