137 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, toms through bars 43-44 and silence through bars 45-46, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 53-55 and 57-59 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-o-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|--x---x---x-----|12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
164 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.
53 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
137 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41 and 25 more.