220 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-15, silence through bars 16-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and snare through bars 51-58, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 35-41, and 14 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x---------------|11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 58, 66, 86 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
171 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.
39 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
220 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 58, 66, 86 and 11 more.