118 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-33, hi-hat through bars 34-40, snare through bars 41-66 and silence through bars 67-73, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34, and 7 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
18 19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-x-----|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|x---x-x-----x-x-|18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
155 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.
51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, 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.
18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15 and 44 more.