168 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-22, silence through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37 and snare through bars 38-69, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-17 and 25-28, and 12 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
156 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.
37 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.