111 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 175 BPM, 5:02 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-40 and toms through bars 41-44, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 17-28 and 33-40 -- 55.4% 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+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 29 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
175 BPM, in 8/4, 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.
44 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 29 and 6 more.