121 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, ride through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-41, ride through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-57, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 44-47 and 51-57, and 4 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 105.
It cuts the song into 32 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 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.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 105.