98 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-19, toms through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-29, toms through bars 30-37 and ride through bars 38-41, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 83-96 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
83 84
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-------x-x-x---x---x---x---|x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---------------------------|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 41, 46, 47, 57, 97 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 41, 46, 47, 57, 97 and 1 more.