179 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-79, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 42 more places -- 26.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--x-x---|9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 57, 65 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
171 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 57, 65 and 15 more.