152 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
57 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, hi-hat through bars 8-120, silence through bars 121-135 and hi-hat through bars 136-152.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-120 -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
10
1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|
BD |------------x-----------------------------x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.