185 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-29, ride through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-167, snare through bars 168-169 and hi-hat through bars 170-183, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 20-23 and 29, and 16 more places -- 23.1% 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---x-|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 105, 117, 120, 121, 123, 125 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
175 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.
59 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.
185 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 105, 117, 120, 121, 123, 125 and 6 more.