219 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:28 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 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-54, snare through bars 55-62, hi-hat through bars 63-79, snare through bars 80-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-130, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-21, 50-53 and 55-57, and 14 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 62, 70, 82, 98, 138 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
219 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 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.
4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 62, 70, 82, 98, 138 and 5 more.