168 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
61 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, ride through bars 28-41, hi-hat through bars 42-64, ride through bars 65-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-86, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 11 and 19, and 7 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x---x---x-|9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 26, 27, 31 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
173 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.
61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 20 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 26, 27, 31 and 14 more.