139 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
54 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 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 33 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-----x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 111.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
170 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.
54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 111.