257 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-87, silence through bars 88-91, toms through bars 92-247 and snare through bars 248-257.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-60, 62-64 and 66-80, and 20 more places -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 92, 93, 239, 248 and 257.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
162 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.
39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
257 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 92, 93, 239, 248 and 257.