147 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 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 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-52, toms through bars 53-56, ride through bars 57-72 and toms through bars 73-95, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17-19, and 10 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |----x-x---------|
T1 |------------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
165 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.
56 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.