229 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-21, silence through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-33, toms through bars 34-39 and ride through bars 40-43, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 182-229 -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
182
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
170 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.
56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
229 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.