170 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-49, toms through bars 50-56, snare through bars 57-74, hi-hat through bars 75-99 and toms through bars 100-104, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o-----o-|--o-----o---o-o-|
SD |----x---x-----x-|--x-----x---x-x-|
T2 |xxxx------------|----------------|
BD |xxxx--x---x-x---|x---x-x-----x-x-|7 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 50 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
195 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 50 more.