195 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-13, ride through bars 14-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-48, ride through bars 49-72 and toms through bars 73-80, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 65-72, and 11 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
49
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 21, 27, 28, 29 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
64 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
195 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 21, 27, 28, 29 and 20 more.