118 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 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, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-34, toms through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-25, 27 and 29-33, and 4 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
21 22
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-g-x---|
SD |--x-----x-x-----|--x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-------x-|----x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 110 and 114.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
127 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.
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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 110 and 114.