173 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
49 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 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-51, ride through bars 52-70, hi-hat through bars 71-95, ride through bars 96-105 and snare through bars 106-121, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 52-70, 96-105 and 138-156 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
52 53
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-----x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.
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.
167 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.