127 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
64 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 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, ride through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-32 and toms through bars 33-36, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14 -- 5.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x--x--x--x--x-x-|x--x--x--x------|
HH |-xx-xx-xx-xx-x-x|-xx-xx-xx-xxxxxx|
HF |x---------------|----------------|13 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 41 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
165 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.
64 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
13 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 41 more.