179 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 5:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-96 and silence through bars 97-179.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 25-31 and 33-59, and 3 more places -- 94.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
RD |x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|
SD |------x-----x-------|
BD |x-------------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.
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.
168 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.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.