164 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-54, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 47-53 and 71 -- 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.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|--x-------x-----|16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
180 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 46 more.