152 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
49 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 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and silence through bars 65-72, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-18, 25-39 and 41-55, and 11 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
5 6
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-|5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 72, 79, 80, 102, 128 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
156 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.
49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 72, 79, 80, 102, 128 and 3 more.