200 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
63 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 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-72, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 81-85 and 87, and 7 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
55
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|16 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 71 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
173 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.
63 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 77 times: bars 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 71 more.