299 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
61 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 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20, ride through bars 21-24, silence through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-40 and ride through bars 41-45, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 41-45 and 51-60, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
299 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.