143 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-54 and toms through bars 55-57, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 23 more places -- 20.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 34, 35 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 34, 35 and 46 more.