187 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 1-24, snare through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-59, snare through bars 60-72, toms through bars 73-76 and snare through bars 77-91, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127, 136 and 158, and 11 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
127
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-xx--x-xx-xxx|19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
164 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 58 more.