198 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on ride, snare and floor tom.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8 and ride through bars 9-198.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 53-72 and 101-118, and 1 more place -- 57.9% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
162 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.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
ride, snare and floor tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.