106 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
47 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-73, snare through bars 74-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-97, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 15 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 73, 81, 104, 105 and 106.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
185 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.
47 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
106 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 73, 81, 104, 105 and 106.