198 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 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 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-38, silence through bars 39-41, toms through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-126 and snare through bars 127-135, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 62-64, and 7 more places -- 11.5% 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---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 42 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
159 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.
50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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.
11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 42 and 17 more.