497 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 9:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
53 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 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-64, hi-hat through bars 65-112 and ride through bars 113-144, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 65-112 and 145-160, and 6 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-----x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
160 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
53 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.
497 bars, about 9:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.