179 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-58, toms through bars 59-60 and kick and crashes through bars 61-64, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 8 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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BD |--------x-------------------x---|18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 40, 43 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 40, 43 and 29 more.