127 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-34, hi-hat through bars 35-55, snare through bars 56-59, hi-hat through bars 60-81 and snare through bars 82-85, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-29 and 31-37 -- 11.1% 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---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xx-x--x---x-xx--|--x-xx-----x--x-|19 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
170 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.
60 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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.
19 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 44 more.