187 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
52 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 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, snare through bars 28-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 51-53 and 78-80, and 5 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
23 24
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|----x-x---x---x-|21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 22, 24, 26, 30 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 84 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.
190 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.
52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 22, 24, 26, 30 and 45 more.