204 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
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 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-180, kick and crashes through bars 181-191 and hi-hat through bars 192-204.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 28 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 48, 64, 98 and 114.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
200 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
204 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 48, 64, 98 and 114.