197 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 23-78 and 87-101, and 6 more places -- 76.6% 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 9 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.
27 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
crash, 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.