158 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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.
silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-44, ride through bars 45-46 and snare through bars 47-72, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 49-51, and 20 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-----|10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
165 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 17 more.