189 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
48 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 bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-44, snare through bars 45-47, toms through bars 48-64 and snare through bars 65-114, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 11 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
65
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.