159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
63 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 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-40, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|------x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 76, 84 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
63 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 76, 84 and 8 more.