101 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-101.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11 and 13-17, and 12 more places -- 57.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 87.
It cuts the song into 21 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 how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 87.