114 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-77, silence through bars 78-80, hi-hat through bars 81-101, kick and crashes through bars 102-111 and hi-hat through bars 112-114.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 57, 80, 81, 89, 95 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
169 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.
43 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 57, 80, 81, 89, 95 and 2 more.