162 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and snare through bars 53-56, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 145-160 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
145 146
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x---xxxxx---x---|xxxxx---x---x---|16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
194 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 39 more.