237 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-55, toms through bars 56-57, snare through bars 58-106 and toms through bars 107-108, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 61 and 63, and 33 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
59
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------x-----|12 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 107 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
155 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.
54 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
237 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 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.
12 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 107 more.