163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, 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 1-3, snare through bars 4-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54 and snare through bars 55-66, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 18 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-----x-|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 108.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
160 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 108.