266 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 6:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-50, silence through bars 51-56, snare through bars 57-82, toms through bars 83-84 and snare through bars 85-117, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 12 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 223.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
170 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.
51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
266 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 223.