161 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, toms through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, toms through bars 58-122 and silence through bars 123-128, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 26-28, and 21 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 129.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
156 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 129.