147 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-63, silence through bars 64-70, hi-hat through bars 71-112, silence through bars 113-119 and hi-hat through bars 120-147.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 37 more places -- 35.3% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |r-----r-----r---|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
180 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.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.