204 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
49 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 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-204.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 44 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 36, 76, 100, 124 and 188.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
155 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.
49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
204 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 36, 76, 100, 124 and 188.