140 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-26, ride through bars 27-42, snare through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-50, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 27-42 and 55-66, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
158 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.