153 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
48 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-39, ride through bars 40-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-44, silence through bars 45-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-88, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 23 and 31, and 9 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---------|8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 43, 51, 59 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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 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.
48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 43, 51, 59 and 10 more.