213 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-22, toms through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-43, toms through bars 44-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-62, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 123-125, 127-129 and 131-133, and 3 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
123 124
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x-------x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|x---x-----------|
BD |x---xxx---x-----|--x---x-xxxx---x|24 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 71 more.
It cuts the song into 90 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 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
213 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
24 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 71 more.