209 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 4:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 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 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-96, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 49, and 7 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxx---------xxx-|--xxx-----------|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
179 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.
56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
209 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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 25 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 19 more.