263 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 6:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
52 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 1-7, snare through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-26, ride through bars 27-31, snare through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-41, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 11 more places -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
37
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |--x---x---x-----|23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
173 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.
52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
263 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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.
23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 51 more.