121 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
51 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 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-57, snare through bars 58-71, hi-hat through bars 72-105 and snare through bars 106-121.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 34-41 and 50-57, and 7 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
170 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.
51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.