259 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-19, silence through bars 20-34, hi-hat through bars 35-65, silence through bars 66-71, hi-hat through bars 72-107 and kick and crashes through bars 108-125, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-98, 100-107 and 112-126, and 7 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
76
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |----x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
230 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.
55 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
259 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.