71 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-71.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-14 and 16-17, and 3 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o---o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----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.
166 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.
49 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.
71 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.