153 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-56, hi-hat through bars 57-77, snare through bars 78-112, hi-hat through bars 113-126 and snare through bars 127-147, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 29-35 and 43-56, and 3 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
170 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.