168 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
58 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 4-13, toms through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-33 and silence through bars 34-40, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56 and 58, and 17 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
54
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------------------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---x---x---x-------|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
175 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.
58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 9 more.