163 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
50 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 9-40, ride through bars 41-47, hi-hat through bars 48-57, ride through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 58-65 and 74-80, and 6 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
41
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
174 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.
50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.