165 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-45, snare through bars 46-51, hi-hat through bars 52-92, snare through bars 93-112 and ride through bars 113-124, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 19.2% 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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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x---x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
164 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.
41 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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.
20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 23 more.