149 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
57 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 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, ride through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-74, ride through bars 75-90 and snare through bars 91-99, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-40 and 60-72 -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
20 21
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x---x---x-gx|x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|x---x---------x-|4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 42, 74, 98, 138, 147 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
162 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.
57 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.
149 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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.
4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 42, 74, 98, 138, 147 and 1 more.