176 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-55, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 33 and 35, and 15 more places -- 40.6% 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---x-----------|9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 64, 71, 72, 80, 88 and 8 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.
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.
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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 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.
9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 64, 71, 72, 80, 88 and 8 more.