136 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 3-63, silence through bars 64-72, hi-hat through bars 73-118, toms through bars 119-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-136.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-23, 25-30 and 33-44, and 6 more places -- 79.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 88, 114, 120 and 135.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
170 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.
44 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 88, 114, 120 and 135.