208 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
58 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 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28 and snare through bars 29-30, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 138-142, 146-150 and 154-158, and 1 more place -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
139 140
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-o---|--o-----x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x---|x-x---------x---|
HF |--------------x-|g---x-g---------|24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16 and 64 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
176 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
208 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16 and 64 more.