142 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
53 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 1-28, toms through bars 29-31, snare through bars 32-50, hi-hat through bars 51-62, snare through bars 63-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-73, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 38-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 50, 66, 73, 74, 82 and 11 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.
53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 50, 66, 73, 74, 82 and 11 more.