153 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 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 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-87, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 33 and 35, and 12 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 36, 38 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
56 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.
153 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 36, 38 and 10 more.