185 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-33, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32 and 81-83 -- 3.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
30 31
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|x-----x-----x---|
SD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |----xx----xx--xx|------xx------xx|10 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 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.
10 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.