143 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-37, snare through bars 38-56 and toms through bars 57-64, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-46, 77-84 and 126-128 -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
39 40
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----xx--x---x-|------x---x-----|12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 22, 29, 30, 34, 48 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
177 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.
55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 22, 29, 30, 34, 48 and 21 more.