228 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 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 9-138, snare through bars 139-145, silence through bars 146-147, hi-hat through bars 148-196 and silence through bars 197-228.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 20 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
37 38
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |------x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|----x-x---x---x-|9 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 16, 20, 48, 60, 63, 64 and 42 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
165 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.
49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
228 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 16, 20, 48, 60, 63, 64 and 42 more.