180 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 113-119, 121-126 and 155-159 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 22, 24, 28 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
55 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 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
180 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 22, 24, 28 and 37 more.