218 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 178 BPM, 3:41 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-217 -- 98.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |----x---x---|
SD |----r---r---|
BD |x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 218.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
178 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
39 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 218.