128 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-119 and silence through bars 120-128.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 26-35 and 37, and 17 more places -- 51.3% 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
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 11, 90, 98, 102, 103 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
160 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.
40 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, snare, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 11, 90, 98, 102, 103 and 1 more.