216 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-51, snare through bars 52-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-75, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-55, 61-63 and 65-67, and 18 more places -- 28.6% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 19, 43, 51, 59, 79, 102 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
186 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 how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
216 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 19, 43, 51, 59, 79, 102 and 12 more.