179 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, snare through bars 28-52, hi-hat through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-69, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-27, 35 and 53-55, and 3 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 138.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
162 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.
35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 138.