237 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-47, snare through bars 48-55, toms through bars 56-100, snare through bars 101-108 and toms through bars 109-153, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-80, 83-100 and 109-153, and 1 more place -- 50.2% 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-|
T2 |----x-x---------|
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 12 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.
185 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.
34 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
237 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.