125 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-102, ride through bars 103-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-125.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 28-43 and 54, and 4 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |----------x-----|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 27, 91, 103 and 107.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
160 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.
25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 27, 91, 103 and 107.