157 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-62, hi-hat through bars 63-71 and ride through bars 72-74, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 41-43, and 15 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x--x--x--|
BD |x---------------|13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 44 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
170 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.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 44 and 26 more.