164 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-85, silence through bars 86-94, hi-hat through bars 95-136 and ride through bars 137-150, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 37 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |--x---x---------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
166 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.
46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.