196 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
51 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 and hi-hat through bars 5-196.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-19 and 21-35, and 15 more places -- 89.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
178 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.
51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
196 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.