189 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 9:49 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare 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.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-56, hi-hat through bars 57-66, ride through bars 67-70, hi-hat through bars 71-78 and ride through bars 79-85, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 34-40 and 50-56, and 9 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
18 19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x-----x---------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 188 and 189.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 9:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 188 and 189.