79 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 1:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
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 2-49 and ride through bars 50-79.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-48 -- 60.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
162 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.