144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 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 1-18, snare through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-58 and snare through bars 59-60, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 25-27 and 29-30, and 13 more places -- 27.3% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 120, 134 and 144.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
43 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 120, 134 and 144.