134 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-36, silence through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 20 more places -- 55.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 109 and 133.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
196 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 109 and 133.