146 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
52 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 1-5, toms through bars 6-16, snare through bars 17-25, toms through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-45 and snare through bars 46-55, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-15, 26-40 and 58-72, and 3 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
6 7
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T1 |--x-----------x-|--x---------x---|
T2 |----------------|--------------x-|
FT |x---x---x-x-x---|x---x---x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 45, 55, 73, 81, 93 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
157 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.
52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 45, 55, 73, 81, 93 and 5 more.