144 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-74, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 17-23 and 41-47, and 1 more place -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
185 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.