216 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
57 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 1-7, snare through bars 8-31, hi-hat through bars 32-39, ride through bars 40-51, hi-hat through bars 52-53 and toms through bars 54-63, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-65, 68-69 and 72-73, and 5 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
64 65
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|--------------x-|
HH |--------o-------|o---o---o-------|
SD |------x---------|--x-----x---x---|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|----x-xx--x---x-|23 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 15, 19, 23, 26 and 89 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
177 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.
57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
216 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 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.
23 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 15, 19, 23, 26 and 89 more.