184 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
55 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 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-34, ride through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66, ride through bars 67-82 and kick and crashes through bars 83-84, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 54 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
200 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.
55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
184 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.