224 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-21, silence through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-25 and silence through bars 26-28, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 49-50, and 18 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
13 14
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
SD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|x---x-x---xx--xx|16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 36 more.