80 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 1:25 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 65-79 -- 47.4% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 9 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.
225 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 1:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 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.