163 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, ride through bars 11-25, toms through bars 26-35, silence through bars 36-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-45, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-47, 85 and 100-101, and 2 more places -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46 47
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-------x---x---x---|----x---x---x-------------------|24 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 10, 14, 18, 26, 27 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 81 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.
178 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
64 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.
163 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
24 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 10, 14, 18, 26, 27 and 30 more.