124 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 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.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-73, toms through bars 74-80, snare through bars 81-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-124.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 11 and 17, and 6 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 19, 22, 25 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
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.
124 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 19, 22, 25 and 20 more.