146 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 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 1-5, toms through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-55, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11, 26-41 and 58-72, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
6 7
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
T1 |---x-----------------x--|---x--------------x-----|
FT |x-----x-----x--x--x-----|x-----x-----x--------x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 73, 81 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
160 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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.
7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 73, 81 and 7 more.