214 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-67, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 78-84 and 120-126, and 8 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 36, 38, 40 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
200 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.
64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
214 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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.
19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 36, 38, 40 and 46 more.