174 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
48 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, snare through bars 30-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-38, silence through bars 39-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-51, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 59-79 and 164-174 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 127, 135, 151, 157 and 158.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
174 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 127, 135, 151, 157 and 158.