160 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
48 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 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-104, snare through bars 105-106, hi-hat through bars 107-108, snare through bars 109-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-112, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-78, 87-104 and 107-108, and 2 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 16.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
185 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 16.