243 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 5:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-72, toms through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-121 and ride through bars 122-124, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-55, 57-63 and 81-87, and 10 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |x-x-o---x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 32, 56, 64, 80, 88 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
166 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.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
243 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 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.
12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 32, 56, 64, 80, 88 and 17 more.