233 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-73, snare through bars 74-87, hi-hat through bars 88-90 and kick and crashes through bars 91-106, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-67 and 130-144 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
53 54
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxx-x-x-x-x-xxx-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxx---------xxx-|x-x-------------|9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
180 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
233 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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.
9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 20 more.