139 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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, toms through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41 and snare through bars 42-46, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-30 and 41-44, and 4 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 31, 32, 40, 45, 53 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
188 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.
55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 31, 32, 40, 45, 53 and 9 more.