153 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
45 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, silence through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-32, silence through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and snare through bars 65-80, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 20 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
65
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------------|6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 56 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
155 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.
45 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 56 and 7 more.