104 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
42 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 2-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-71, hi-hat through bars 72-79 and snare through bars 80-104.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-29, 38-71 and 81-104 -- 83.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
155 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.
42 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.