128 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
52 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 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-126 and toms through bars 127-128.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 17 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x-x-|6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 32, 88, 110, 112, 116 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
162 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.
52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 32, 88, 110, 112, 116 and 3 more.