85 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
53 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, ride through bars 49-53, hi-hat through bars 54-62, silence through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-85.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 11 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-------x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
156 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.
53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.