72 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-54, silence through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|----x-x---x-x---|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68 and 72.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
33 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68 and 72.