120 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, snare through bars 45-69, silence through bars 70-72, snare through bars 73-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-102, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-21, 23-27 and 29, and 10 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 110.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
160 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.
30 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 110.