242 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, ride through bars 49-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-70, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45, 47 and 55-56, and 16 more places -- 12.4% 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
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x---|x-------x---|
SD |------------|x-------x---|
FT |------------|----x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x---xx--x-|25 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 14, 18, 26 and 52 more.
It cuts the song into 82 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.
185 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.
61 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
242 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 19 sittings, about 29 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.
25 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 14, 18, 26 and 52 more.