185 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-44, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 17-18, and 13 more places -- 28.6% 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---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|23 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 28, 30 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
23 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 28, 30 and 34 more.