143 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 5:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
58 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 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, toms through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-45, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20 and 25-26 -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
19 20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-----g---g-----|x-g-g-----x---g-g-----g-|
BD |------x-x-------x-x-|------x-x-------x-x-----|9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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 5/4, 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.
58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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.
9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 39 more.