183 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
ride through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-50, snare through bars 51-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-81, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 33-35 and 37-39, and 10 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
13 14
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--|x--x-x-x-x-x-x--|
BD |x--------------x|------------x--x|13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
183 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 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.
13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 30 more.