194 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
59 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 1-10, toms through bars 11-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24, snare through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 111-113, 115-116 and 119-121, and 12 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
111 112
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---g---|x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x---x-------|--x-x-x---x-x---|19 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 47 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
19 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 47 more.