103 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-103.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 57-63 and 65-71 -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 32, 56, 64 and 72.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
185 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.
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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 32, 56, 64 and 72.