61 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 1:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
59 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 1-8, toms through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-28, snare through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-43, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21 and 23-25, and 1 more place -- 20.7% 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---x---x---x---|----------------|
HH |----------------|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|--x-x-----x-----|12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 20, 22, 26 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
158 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.
59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
61 bars, about 1:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 20, 22, 26 and 11 more.