148 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-25, snare through bars 26-31, hi-hat through bars 32-34 and kick and crashes through bars 35-41, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16, 68-74 and 81-87 -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-------------|10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 25, 27, 28, 29, 41 and 22 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.
178 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.
50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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.
10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 25, 27, 28, 29, 41 and 22 more.