181 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-67, 72-79 and 111-114, and 4 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
64
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
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 35 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.
200 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.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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.