98 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
toms through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-23, toms through bars 24-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-58, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 5 more places -- 10.3% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----o-----x-----x-----o-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----------x-----x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
160 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.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.