172 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 1-4, snare through bars 5-49, toms through bars 50-51, snare through bars 52-56, toms through bars 57-58 and snare through bars 59-91, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43 44
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x---x-----x---|11 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
172 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.