150 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
57 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 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-42, snare through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-150.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 28 more places -- 21.5% 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---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 92 and 150.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
165 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.
57 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.
150 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 92 and 150.