138 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
46 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41 and kick and crashes through bars 42-46, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 22 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 23, 47, 48, 52, 54 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
165 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.
46 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.
138 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 23, 47, 48, 52, 54 and 14 more.