104 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35 and snare through bars 36-40, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-32, 41-47 and 65-71, and 3 more places -- 49.4% 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
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 20 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.
175 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.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.