189 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
54 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 bar 1, snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55 and ride through bars 56-65, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25, 29 and 103, and 9 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
143 144
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---------------|--------------x-|
BD |--------------x-|xxx-------------|16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 18, 23 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
210 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.
54 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 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.
16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 18, 23 and 23 more.