105 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-26 and silence through bars 27-29, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 9-10 and 13, and 18 more places -- 56% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.