153 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-80, toms through bars 81-85, snare through bars 86-87, toms through bars 88-96, silence through bars 97-98 and snare through bars 99-112, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 18 more places -- 13.9% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
155 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.
55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 49 more.