168 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, snare through bars 41-47 and toms through bars 48-49, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13 and 15-17, and 1 more place -- 4.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxx-x-xxx-xxx-x-|x-xxx-x-xxx-x-x-|
HH |--x-----x---x---|----x---x-x-----|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-------------|8 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 86 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
60 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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.
8 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 86 more.