197 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
63 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, snare through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-105, silence through bars 106-128 and toms through bars 129-136, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 17 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x-----------x--x--x-----------x--x--|x-----------------------x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----|6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 46, 48, 56, 133, 134 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
63 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 46, 48, 56, 133, 134 and 6 more.