201 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-38, toms through bars 39-47 and snare through bars 48-55, and 32 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83, 85 and 89, and 11 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
83
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 12, 17 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
201 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 12, 17 and 58 more.