179 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
58 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 1-8, toms through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-32, snare through bars 33-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-48, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82, 86 and 130, and 12 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
130
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---------x-|17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 48, 55, 56 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
172 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.
58 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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.
17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 48, 55, 56 and 23 more.