145 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
45 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 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-36, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-32, 35-36 and 39-40, and 8 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
168 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.
45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.