142 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-38, ride through bars 39-42, hi-hat through bars 43-46, ride through bars 47-65, snare through bars 66-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-70, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-84, 86-89 and 91, and 14 more places -- 18.2% 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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RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
260 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.