187 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
53 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 1-13, toms through bars 14-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-58, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 24 and 27-33, and 4 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
27 28
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x---x-----|20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
202 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.
53 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.
187 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 37 more.