176 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 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 5-21, ride through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-36, toms through bars 37-38 and ride through bars 39-42, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-53, 81 and 83-90, and 7 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 42, 54, 56 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
156 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 42, 54, 56 and 9 more.