256 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 172 BPM, 6:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
51 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 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-49, snare through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-73, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 159-176 and 179-193 -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 50, 51, 52 and 41 more.
It cuts the song into 73 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.
172 BPM, in 5/4, 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.
51 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
256 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 50, 51, 52 and 41 more.