227 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-34, toms through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-56, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 25-26, and 3 more places -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
13 14
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----------|34 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 63 more.
It cuts the song into 94 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.
158 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.
51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
227 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
34 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 63 more.