226 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:48 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-41 and ride through bars 42-73, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 13 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
19 20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xx-xxxx-xxxx-xxx|xxx-xxx-xxxxxxx-|19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 41 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
156 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
226 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 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.
19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 41 more.