179 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
62 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-20 and ride through bars 21-22, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 77-81 and 83-87 -- 8.6% 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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1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
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BD |x---------------x---------------------------------------x-------|------------------------x---------------x---------------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 46, 52, 94 and 100.
It cuts the song into 47 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 46, 52, 94 and 100.