189 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, toms through bars 39-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-76, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-72, 101-115 and 178-183, and 2 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 47, 48, 63, 64, 80, 84 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
175 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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.
8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 47, 48, 63, 64, 80, 84 and 5 more.