261 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 6:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-35, silence through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-80, silence through bars 81-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-112, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 145-151, 154-155 and 157, and 25 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 135, 136, 140, 142, 144, 156 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
166 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.
41 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
261 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 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.
13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 135, 136, 140, 142, 144, 156 and 16 more.