213 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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, kick and crashes through bars 9-11, toms through bars 12-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-38, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-35, 56-60 and 64, and 11 more places -- 28.5% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|25 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
155 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
213 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
25 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 40 more.