91 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 163 BPM, 2:57 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
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 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-43, hi-hat through bars 44-51, snare through bars 52-68 and silence through bars 69-91.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-34 and 52-58, and 1 more place -- 43.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 59.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
163 BPM, in 6/4, 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
91 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 59.