159 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-48 and snare through bars 49-50, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 13-15, and 5 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---o---|----x-------x---|
SD |------x---------|--------x-x---x-|
BD |x---------x-x---|----x-----------|
HF |----------------|x---------------|14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 22, 23, 28, 32, 36, 46 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
185 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 22, 23, 28, 32, 36, 46 and 22 more.