195 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 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 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-63, snare through bars 64-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-109, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-53, 58-61 and 66-68, and 10 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |------xx--xx--xx|16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
186 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.
56 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.
195 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 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 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19 and 39 more.