267 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-267.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-68, 70-72 and 90-265 -- 92.1% 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
HH |--------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
207 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.
28 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
267 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.