235 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 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, hi-hat through bars 4-36, silence through bars 37-51, hi-hat through bars 52-68, silence through bars 69-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-91, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 39 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |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 16 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.
167 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.
42 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
235 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.