140 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-61 and silence through bars 62-64, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 41-42 and 65-66, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 17 more.