157 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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 1-15, toms through bars 16-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-40, toms through bars 41-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-55 and toms through bars 56-67, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-73, 84-85 and 88, and 14 more places -- 22.3% 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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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x--------x--|
BD |---x--x--------x--------|6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 67, 89, 91, 107, 109, 110 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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.
6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 67, 89, 91, 107, 109, 110 and 7 more.