99 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 2-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37, snare through bars 38-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-77, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 26-33 and 38-41, and 2 more places -- 65.6% 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
SD |----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 6 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.
185 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.
29 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, 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.