132 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on ride, snare and kick.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-35 and 37-51, and 5 more places -- 93.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |------x-----------x-----|
SD |r-----x-----r-----x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 132.
It cuts the song into 5 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
58 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.
ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 132.