186 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 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 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-44 and snare through bars 45-47, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8, 13-19 and 21-27, and 7 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
250 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.
55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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.
3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.