111 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
57 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 1-25, snare through bars 26-31, toms through bars 32-49, snare through bars 50-54, hi-hat through bars 55-62 and snare through bars 63-89, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-18, and 3 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |xxxx------------|------------x---|13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 33, 34 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
57 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 33, 34 and 21 more.