123 bars, 6:50, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-66 and snare through bars 67-68, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---x---------x-----x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 6 more.