219 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 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, kick and crashes through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-100, snare through bars 101-104, toms through bars 105-106 and snare through bars 107-112, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-54, 57-61 and 83-88, and 4 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
49 50
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--------x--|---x--------x--x--------|9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 82, 134, 136 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
64 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
219 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 17 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 82, 134, 136 and 11 more.