121 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, snare through bars 15-18, silence through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-38 and silence through bars 39-42, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 31-33 and 35-38, and 12 more places -- 46.6% 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-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 72, 80 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
41 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 11 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 72, 80 and 5 more.