260 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 203 BPM, 7:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
53 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 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-23, ride through bars 24-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35, ride through bars 36-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-46, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-70 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
55 56
1.....2.....3.....4.....5..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....
HH |---x--x--x--o-----x--x--o-----|---x--x--x--o-----x--x--------|
SD |---------------x--------------|---------------x--------x--x--|
BD |x--------------------------x--|x-----------------------------|
HF |---------------g-----------g--|---------------g--------------|9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 23, 28, 33, 41, 78, 82 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
203 BPM, in 5/4, 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.
53 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
260 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 23, 28, 33, 41, 78, 82 and 27 more.