161 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 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 2-34, toms through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-39, toms through bars 40-42, silence through bars 43-45 and kick and crashes through bars 46-49, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-12, 15 and 19-20, and 7 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
7 8
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---------x-|x-----x-------x-|20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 17, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 41 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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.
20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 17, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 41 more.