165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.
46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 3-165.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-11 and 13-17, and 25 more places -- 82.7% 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
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----r-------r---|
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 5 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.
46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.