171 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, silence through bars 17-19, snare through bars 20-24 and silence through bars 25-29, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 153-155 and 157-159 -- 4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
153
1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------------------------------|
SD |x-----------x-----------------x-----------------|
T1 |------------------------------------x-----------|
T2 |------------------------------------------x-----|
BD |------x-----------x-----x--x--------------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 50 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 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.