177 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-24, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 11 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|29 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 59 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
29 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 59 more.