136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
32 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 1-44, silence through bars 45-99 and snare through bars 100-136.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 62 more places -- 50.4% 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
SD |----r---r---r---|
BD |x---------x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
160 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.
32 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.