161 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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 bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-35, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 46-52, and 5 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 27 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.
185 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.
55 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 27 more.