123 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
49 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 3-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8, 17-24 and 33-40, and 1 more place -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 16, 32, 52, 60 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 16, 32, 52, 60 and 4 more.