148 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 1-16, snare through bars 17-35, hi-hat through bars 36-42, snare through bars 43-63, hi-hat through bars 64-72 and snare through bars 73-74, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 25-27 and 29, and 14 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 30, 32, 42, 50, 66 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
186 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 30, 32, 42, 50, 66 and 19 more.