121 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, toms through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29 and toms through bars 30-32, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 15 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
186 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.