77 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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.
snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-20, ride through bars 21-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-52, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 25, and 7 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----xx--xx|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x-x---x---|2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 60 and 76.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
140 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.
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.
77 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 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.
2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 60 and 76.