159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5 and snare through bars 6-159.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 17-31 and 33-39, and 15 more places -- 87% 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-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 7 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.
33 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.