162 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 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.
silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and toms through bars 25-26, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-49, 52-53 and 56-57, and 8 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-------------------|13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 18, 25, 26, 29, 33 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
180 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.
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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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.
13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 18, 25, 26, 29, 33 and 14 more.