152 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
48 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 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-30, snare through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-45 and snare through bars 46-51, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-30, 52-73 and 119-128 -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |----f-------f---|
T1 |x-------x-------|
FT |x-------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 87, 100 and 106.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 87, 100 and 106.