152 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-25, snare through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44 and silence through bars 45-51, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 29 more places -- 39.6% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 91, 92, 110, 151 and 152.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
164 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.
43 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 91, 92, 110, 151 and 152.