259 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 7:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
56 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 4-80, ride through bars 81-96, hi-hat through bars 97-112, ride through bars 113-129 and hi-hat through bars 130-132, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-40, 57-71 and 73-79 -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x-x-o---x-x-o---|x-x-o---x-x-o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 44, 52, 80 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
160 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.
56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
259 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 44, 52, 80 and 24 more.