161 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-32, silence through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-80, toms through bars 81-112 and silence through bars 113-128, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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BD |x--------x--------x-----x--x-----x--------x-----|6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 64, 77, 78, 96, 144, 152 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
164 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.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 64, 77, 78, 96, 144, 152 and 2 more.