168 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
63 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-28, ride through bars 29-34 and silence through bars 35-43, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 12-13 and 23-24, and 6 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x---g-|
BD |x--x-----x-----x--------|x--x--------x--x--------|12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 31, 33, 51, 55, 80 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
119 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
63 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 31, 33, 51, 55, 80 and 7 more.