158 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, ride through bars 49-57, hi-hat through bars 58-81, ride through bars 82-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-138, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-54, 82-95 and 139-152 -- 22.7% 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
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 57, 81, 97 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 57, 81, 97 and 7 more.