168 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
60 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 1-4, ride through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-21, ride through bars 22-35, snare through bars 36-49 and ride through bars 50-133, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 64-68 and 70-77, and 3 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
177 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.
60 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.