133 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
52 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, snare through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-62, toms through bars 63-67 and snare through bars 68-133.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 21-23, and 4 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x---------x-|10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
180 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
133 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 12 more.