148 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 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.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-143, silence through bars 144-146 and toms through bars 147-148.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-41, 43 and 45, and 13 more places -- 86.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---g---x---g---|
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 6 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.
195 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.