238 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:44 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 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 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-26, toms through bars 27-29, snare through bars 30-53 and toms through bars 54-55, and 24 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84, 86 and 89, and 13 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
89
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x---x---x---|
SD |------------X---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
164 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.
50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
238 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 33 more.