176 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
58 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 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 61-67, and 5 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
175 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.
58 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 34 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 28 more.