149 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-79, kick and crashes through bars 80-85, hi-hat through bars 86-101, snare through bars 102-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-149.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25-29 and 31-35, and 11 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|
BD |----x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 37, 116, 117, 131, 132 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
164 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 37, 116, 117, 131, 132 and 4 more.