124 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, silence through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-92 and silence through bars 93-96, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-40, 45-60 and 62-70, and 1 more place -- 45.7% 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---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
173 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.
37 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.
124 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.