189 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-14, silence through bars 15-35, hi-hat through bars 36-133, snare through bars 134-140 and hi-hat through bars 141-153, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 50-63 and 85-133, and 1 more place -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
170 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.
33 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.