149 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, ride through bars 38-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-41, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 98-106, 108 and 110, and 1 more place -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
98 99
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|x---x---x---|
RD |--x-----x-xx|------x---x-|
HH |----x-------|------------|
SD |x-----------|x---x-x-x-x-|
BD |--x-x-x-x-xx|----xxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 28 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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.
13 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 28 and 39 more.