144 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-88, hi-hat through bars 89-128, silence through bars 129-136 and hi-hat through bars 137-144.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-80, 89-128 and 137-144 -- 93.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
165 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.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.