167 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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.
snare through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-52, toms through bars 53-54, snare through bars 55-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-78, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-48 and 50-51, and 6 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43 44
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |--------------x-|----x-----x-----|16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
164 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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.
16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 40 more.