164 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 4:50 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 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 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, snare through bars 25-34, toms through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-64, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-40, 42 and 44-45, and 4 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
38 39
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |x-------------|--------------|
HH |----o---o---o-|--o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----|----x---------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-|x-------x---x-|16 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 22 and 63 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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 7/4, 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.
49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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.
16 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 22 and 63 more.