159 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
46 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 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-45, snare through bars 46-62, hi-hat through bars 63-66 and snare through bars 67-70, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 71-77, and 3 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |----------x---x-|17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 50, 53, 54 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
165 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.
46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 50, 53, 54 and 28 more.