132 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
59 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 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-43, snare through bars 44-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51, snare through bars 52-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-81, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-34, 60-66 and 68-74 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
20 21
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|--x-------x-----|5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 51, 82, 83, 91, 113, 114 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
160 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.
59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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.
5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 51, 82, 83, 91, 113, 114 and 5 more.