105 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
51 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 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-70, snare through bars 71-72 and ride through bars 73-89, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 6 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x---------|--x---------x---|
BD |x-----------x---|--------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 15, 64, 103 and 104.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
166 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.
51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 15, 64, 103 and 104.