121 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, silence through bars 38-39 and snare through bars 40-42, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-19, 44 and 46, and 3 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 57, 65, 120 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
169 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.
39 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 57, 65, 120 and 1 more.