122 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom 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 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, silence through bars 45-52, snare through bars 53-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-84, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 21 more places -- 56.4% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
192 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.