155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, 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.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-110, snare through bars 111-118, hi-hat through bars 119-126, snare through bars 127-140 and hi-hat through bars 141-147, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10-23 and 32-55, and 2 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.