128 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 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 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-78 and snare through bars 79-80, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 20 more places -- 23.7% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---------x-|6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 48, 64, 68, 69, 70 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
160 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.
50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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.
6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 48, 64, 68, 69, 70 and 5 more.