132 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-116, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28, 57-72 and 101-116 -- 36.4% 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-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
42 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.