164 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-49, toms through bars 50-51, ride through bars 52-132, toms through bars 133-134 and ride through bars 135-164.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
25 26
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HH |o-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |---------x--------x-----|------------------x--x--|
BD |x-----x--------x--------|------x--------x--------|5 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 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.
5 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23 more.