140 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
59 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 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, toms through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-40, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 43-50 and 76-90, and 2 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-x-----x-|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 38, 51, 59 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
172 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.
59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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.
11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 38, 51, 59 and 13 more.