126 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39 and ride through bars 40-41, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 74 and 78, and 3 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |------x---x---x-|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 9 and 126.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
188 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.
52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
126 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 9 and 126.