121 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 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 1-18, snare through bars 19-23, silence through bars 24-26, toms through bars 27-29, hi-hat through bars 30-43 and snare through bars 44-46, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|----x-----------x---x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 44, 45, 59 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
56 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 44, 45, 59 and 9 more.