252 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:36 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-70, snare through bars 71-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-252.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 39 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
180 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
252 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.