80 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-39 -- 20.3% 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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BD |x---x---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 41, 42, 44 and 80.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
162 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.
64 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 41, 42, 44 and 80.