89 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 1:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-89.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-43, 46-47 and 50-51, and 8 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
42 43
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-|----x---x---|2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 57, 61, 65 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
170 BPM, in 3/4, 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
89 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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.
2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 57, 61, 65 and 6 more.