196 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 2-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-196.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-152 and 154-195 -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
34 35
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |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 7 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.
178 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.
63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
196 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.