155 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-29, snare through bars 30-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-52, snare through bars 53-66 and kick and crashes through bars 67-79, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 30-32 and 34, and 10 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 155.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
175 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.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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 155.