232 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
52 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 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-25, hi-hat through bars 26-49, snare through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-59, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-37, 44-45 and 47-50, and 8 more places -- 28.9% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 51, 67, 77 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
232 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 51, 67, 77 and 29 more.