220 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
59 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 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-48 and toms through bars 49-52, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 65, and 15 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
195 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.
59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
220 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 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.
20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 51 more.