150 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
62 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, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-22, snare through bars 23-28, toms through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-56, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15, and 9 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
33 34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 30, 40, 47 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
180 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.
62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 30, 40, 47 and 13 more.