150 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10 and toms through bars 11-150.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 15-66 and 68-90, and 1 more place -- 91% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------gggg|
T2 |x---x---x-x-----|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
172 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.
51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.