141 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
54 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 bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-21, toms through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-49, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42 and 44-48, and 2 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
34 35
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---x---|g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |----------------x---|------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-----|x-x-x-x---x---x-x---|15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
168 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.
54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 44 more.