190 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- 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.
snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, ride through bars 37-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-15 and 17, and 15 more places -- 17.9% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 20, 36 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
170 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.
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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
190 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 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.
15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 20, 36 and 24 more.