112 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, snare through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-33, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 19 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 75, 76, 77 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
188 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
112 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 75, 76, 77 and 2 more.