195 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-176, hi-hat through bars 177-183 and snare through bars 184-195.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-66, 68-82 and 84-130, and 2 more places -- 93.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
164 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.
29 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
195 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.