191 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-21, toms through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-50 and silence through bars 51-53, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-47, 58-64 and 66-70, and 2 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
42 43
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|x---x-xx--x-----|21 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 62 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
188 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 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.
21 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 62 more.