101 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-78, ride through bars 79-84, hi-hat through bars 85-86, snare through bars 87-88, hi-hat through bars 89-96 and silence through bars 97-101.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59-65 and 67-72 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
59 60
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-----------x-|----x-x---x-----|6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 36, 37, 38, 46, 47 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
162 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.
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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 36, 37, 38, 46, 47 and 5 more.