176 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24, 33-40 and 57-64, and 1 more place -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
BD |x-------xxxx--xx|x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 115 and 172.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
158 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.
50 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 115 and 172.