197 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
53 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 and hi-hat through bars 8-197.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-51, 53-60 and 77-91, and 3 more places -- 65.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
37
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-----------|
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.
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.
53 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.