168 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-29, silence through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-41, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46, 50-51 and 54-56, and 8 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
50 51
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----xx|
BD |x-----xx----x-x-|--x-x-----x-----|14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 23 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.
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.
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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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.
14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 23 more.