94 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-27, ride through bars 28-40, snare through bars 41-66 and ride through bars 67-94.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-26, 44-46 and 48-65 -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x--x--------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 11 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
94 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.