337 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 7:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-104, toms through bars 105-111, hi-hat through bars 112-312, toms through bars 313-319 and hi-hat through bars 320-337.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 33-39 and 41-63, and 7 more places -- 90.5% 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 10 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.
172 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.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
337 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.