158 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
toms through bars 1-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-96, snare through bars 97-112, kick and crashes through bars 113-116 and silence through bars 117-132, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-48 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
1 2
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
FT |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-----------------------------------------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.