183 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 5:23 of playing on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-93, toms through bars 94-100, snare through bars 101-105, toms through bars 106-110, snare through bars 111-113 and ride through bars 114-137, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-70 and 114-129 -- 58.5% 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+a5e+a
RD |x---x--xx---x--xx---|
SD |-------x----x------x|
BD |x-------------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 29 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 5/4, 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 how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
183 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.