183 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-35, hi-hat through bars 36-45, ride through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-55 and ride through bars 56-65, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 43 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 59 and 66.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
42 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
183 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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 59 and 66.