210 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-45, 47-99 and 101-210 -- 95.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
170 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.
62 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
210 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.