165 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
60 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and snare through bars 35-54, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-35, 37 and 39, and 6 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
27 28
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|----------------|
HH |--------o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---xxxx----|----------------|7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 49, 50, 52, 55 and 27 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.
185 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.
60 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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.
7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 49, 50, 52, 55 and 27 more.