160 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
54 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 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-57, toms through bars 58-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-71, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-16, 21-24 and 65-68, and 3 more places -- 16% 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---------x-----|--x-------x-----|
HH |----------------|------------o---|
SD |----------x-----|------------x---|
T2 |----xx----------|----------------|
FT |------xxxx------|----------------|
BD |x---------x-----|xxx-----xxx-x---|24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 33, 37, 41 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
185 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.
54 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, 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.
24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 33, 37, 41 and 29 more.