67 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-59 and snare through bars 60-67.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 13 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |x-x-----x-x-----|
BD |x-x-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 11 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.
170 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.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
67 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.