270 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 6:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-94, silence through bars 95-96, snare through bars 97-165 and kick and crashes through bars 166-167, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-44, 53-93 and 98-133, and 2 more places -- 59.1% 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 |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
162 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
270 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.