122 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-33, snare through bars 34-50, silence through bars 51-53 and snare through bars 54-59, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-27, 36-49 and 80-92, and 1 more place -- 49.1% 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
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |----x-------x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
36 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.