146 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
41 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 3-78, kick and crashes through bars 79-82, hi-hat through bars 83-102, silence through bars 103-117, snare through bars 118-119 and hi-hat through bars 120-146.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 17 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
164 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.
41 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.