179 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
48 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 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-32, toms through bars 33-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-47, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 22 and 24, and 14 more places -- 11.7% 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.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x--------x-----|10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 16, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
200 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.
48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 16, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 11 more.