186 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-32, ride through bars 33-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66, ride through bars 67-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-86, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-32, 51-66 and 69-86, and 2 more places -- 57% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 9 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 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.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.