103 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare 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.
ride through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-22 and kick and crashes through bars 23-24, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-6, 9 and 17-22, and 9 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|x---x-------x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 46.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
188 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 46.