99 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
49 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 1-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-60, ride through bars 61-63, hi-hat through bars 64-78 and ride through bars 79-91, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 79-81 and 83-85, and 1 more place -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
61
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
200 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.
49 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.