265 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 4:25 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-75, toms through bars 76-77, hi-hat through bars 78-135, toms through bars 136-137 and hi-hat through bars 138-200, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 21, and 97 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 76, 77, 204, 205, 264 and 265.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
180 BPM, in 3/4, 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
265 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 6 times: bars 76, 77, 204, 205, 264 and 265.