74 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-24, silence through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-45, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 11 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
183 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.
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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
74 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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.