127 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-62 and snare through bars 63-72, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 41-54 and 81-83, and 2 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 72, 80 and 112.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 72, 80 and 112.