234 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:51 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-168, snare through bars 169-174 and hi-hat through bars 175-234.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 13-16, and 38 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
54 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
234 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.