170 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-56, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 133-170 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
133 134
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxx---xxx---xxx-|--xxx---xxxxxxxx|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 88, 92, 96 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 88, 92, 96 and 2 more.