131 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
45 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, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68 and snare through bars 69-92, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-14 and 21, and 9 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x---x---------|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 44, 60 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
167 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.
45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 44, 60 and 8 more.