237 bars at 255 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, snare through bars 24-140 and ride through bars 141-237.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 11 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 148, 156, 164, 172, 180, 187 and 1 more.
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.
255 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.
41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
237 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 148, 156, 164, 172, 180, 187 and 1 more.