179 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, silence through bars 13-16 and snare through bars 17-25, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 45-47, and 28 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x---x-----|6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 44, 52, 68, 76, 96 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
162 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.
43 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 44, 52, 68, 76, 96 and 8 more.