140 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
59 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 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-68 and snare through bars 69-88, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 57-67 and 69-71, and 3 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |xxxx------xxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 32, 48 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 19 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 32, 48 and 13 more.