186 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 33-34 and 37-38, and 13 more places -- 18.7% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 28, 63, 64, 86 and 153.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
165 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.
53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 28, 63, 64, 86 and 153.