90 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-64 and snare through bars 65-77, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 17-19 and 21-22, and 7 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
11 12
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---------|x-----xx--x---x-|10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
170 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.
55 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.
90 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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.
10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 10 more.