162 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
53 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 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-61, snare through bars 62-65, hi-hat through bars 66-102, toms through bars 103-125 and hi-hat through bars 126-153, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-61, 88-102 and 126-152 -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
47
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 159, 160, 161 and 162.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
174 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.
53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 159, 160, 161 and 162.