118 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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.
toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-36, toms through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 55-57, and 3 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x--x---xx--x-|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
160 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 39 more.