153 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
33 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 1-8, snare through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, snare through bars 25-28, silence through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-56, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 36-42 and 50-56, and 8 more places -- 37.7% 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-------|
BD |x---x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
165 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.
33 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.