200 bars at 262 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-131, kick and crashes through bars 132-135, silence through bars 136-150 and hi-hat through bars 151-200.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-32, 47-70 and 96-107, and 2 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------|----x-----------|
BD |----------------|----x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 93, 191 and 197.
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.
262 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.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 93, 191 and 197.