160 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 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 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-42, ride through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-82 and snare through bars 83-108, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 67-69, 71-73 and 75-77, and 5 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
67 68
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x-----x-----|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
FT |----------------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------xxxxxxxx|x---x-----x---x-|22 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 20, 24 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 20, 24 and 40 more.