208 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26 and snare through bars 27-41, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15-16, and 4 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
11 12
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
BD |x-xx--x-------x-|--x---x-xxxxxxxx|30 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 105 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
170 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.
53 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.
208 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 24 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.
30 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 105 more.