195 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-62, toms through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-110, toms through bars 111-112, hi-hat through bars 113-134 and toms through bars 135-137, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-14, 17-24 and 37-39, and 12 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
7 8
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|x-------x-----x-|
BD |x-----------x---|----x-------x---|4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 56, 63, 64 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
160 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.
47 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.
195 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 56, 63, 64 and 10 more.