160 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-39, snare through bars 40-56, hi-hat through bars 57-71 and snare through bars 72-89, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 72 and 144.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
176 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.
41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 72 and 144.