171 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-46, hi-hat through bars 47-48, snare through bars 49-132, silence through bars 133-138, snare through bars 139-149 and silence through bars 150-171.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-10, and 30 more places -- 57.7% 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 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|----x---x---x-xx|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|--x---x---x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
40 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.