182 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-14, silence through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-39, toms through bars 40-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-117, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-13 and 42-48, and 10 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 40, 41, 81, 93 and 4 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.
170 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
182 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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.
6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 40, 41, 81, 93 and 4 more.