153 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-88, ride through bars 89-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-153.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-33, 37 and 41, and 28 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x-x-----x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 152.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
197 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 152.