208 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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 1-6, snare through bars 7-31, hi-hat through bars 32-47, snare through bars 48-56, silence through bars 57-58 and kick and crashes through bars 59-75, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 17 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x---|20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 15, 23, 31, 39, 62 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 85 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.
180 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.
55 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.
208 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, 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.
20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 15, 23, 31, 39, 62 and 26 more.