178 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34 and toms through bars 35-52, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 4 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
19 20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx|-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-|17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
160 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.
61 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 45 more.