131 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
58 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 bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-35, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-33 and 66-80 -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
18 19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|x---x-----x-----|12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 4, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
200 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.
58 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.
131 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.
12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 4, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 14 more.