88 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
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 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 31, and 7 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
170 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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.
10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.