120 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-60, snare through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-84, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-48 and 69-84 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |------------o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
HF |x---x---x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
39 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.