89 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-39 and 45-48, and 2 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
89 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.