120 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
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 1-9, snare through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-35, silence through bars 36-42, snare through bars 43-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-87, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 43, and 15 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 57, 58, 85, 89 and 113.
It cuts the song into 23 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 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 57, 58, 85, 89 and 113.