168 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-31, snare through bars 32-35, toms through bars 36-40, snare through bars 41-50, ride through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-70, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-47, 49-50 and 58-59, and 9 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46 47
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x---x---x-------|
SD |x---------------|----------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|x---x---xxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43 and 50 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 56 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43 and 50 more.