185 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-104, ride through bars 105-121, kick and crashes through bars 122-127 and hi-hat through bars 128-152, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-56, 105-120 and 153-183 -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
41 42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 104, 151 and 152.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
205 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 104, 151 and 152.