96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
50 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, hi-hat through bars 9-90 and snare through bars 91-96.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-71, 73-79 and 81-87, and 2 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 72, 80, 88 and 92.
It cuts the song into 15 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 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.
50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 72, 80, 88 and 92.