98 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
46 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 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-43, snare through bars 44-49, hi-hat through bars 50-68, snare through bars 69-74 and ride through bars 75-83, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-35 -- 24.3% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
160 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.
46 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.