178 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
45 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 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42, snare through bars 43-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-84, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-18, 21-26 and 47-52, and 8 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
13 14
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----X-------X---|----X-------X---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 115, 119, 121, 129 and 139.
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.
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.
45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 3:57 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.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 115, 119, 121, 129 and 139.