109 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-78, kick and crashes through bars 79-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-109.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-23, 30-37 and 86-93 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
8 9
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 29, 46, 47, 53, 59 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
50 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.
109 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 29, 46, 47, 53, 59 and 6 more.