223 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, silence through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-67, snare through bars 68-115 and silence through bars 116-138, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-46, 48-54 and 56, and 21 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
40 41
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-|----x---x---|20 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 55 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
195 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
223 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
20 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 55 more.