142 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 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.
snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80, snare through bars 81-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-112, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-24, and 3 more places -- 54.9% 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 |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
195 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.