175 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
51 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 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-88, ride through bars 89-91, hi-hat through bars 92-105, snare through bars 106-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-121, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 39 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 175.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
166 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.
51 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
175 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 1 time: bar 175.