138 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
53 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 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-114, ride through bars 115-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-138.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-40, 83-88 and 91, and 1 more place -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
29 30
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x---------x-|----x-x---x-----|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 92, 98 and 130.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
230 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.
53 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 92, 98 and 130.