145 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-50, toms through bars 51-52 and snare through bars 53-72, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
4 5
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x---|x-g-x-g-x-g-x---|
SD |--x-----x-----gg|--x-----x---ggx-|
BD |x-----------x---|x-----x---------|11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 17, 18, 32, 33 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
180 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.
63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 17, 18, 32, 33 and 30 more.