152 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
57 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 1-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-152.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11 and 126-151 -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
6 7
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |---------------x|x-------x-------|
BD |--x-----x-------|x-------x-----x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
180 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.
57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 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.