149 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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.
silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-149.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 90-149 -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
90 91
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x-x-|
BD |x-----------x-x-|x---------x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 9.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
160 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 9.