169 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
56 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, hi-hat through bars 4-165 and snare through bars 166-169.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 40 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 134, 142, 150 and 158.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
180 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.
56 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.
169 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 134, 142, 150 and 158.