155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, silence through bars 22-32, hi-hat through bars 33-96, kick and crashes through bars 97-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-108, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 40 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 124.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
180 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.
37 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 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.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 124.