144 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
45 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 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-71 and snare through bars 72-80, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-31, 49-63 and 81-95, and 9 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------x---x---|
HH |o-------o-------|x---x-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---xxxxxxxx|
BD |x-------x-------|x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
164 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.
45 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.