177 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 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, hi-hat through bars 5-92, toms through bars 93-124, silence through bars 125-128, hi-hat through bars 129-161 and snare through bars 162-168, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-42, 50-75 and 77-92, and 3 more places -- 70.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
165 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.
38 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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.