154 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-154.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-7 and 11-14, and 21 more places -- 40.3% 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+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--------x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 53, 67 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
174 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.
43 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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.
5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 53, 67 and 4 more.