175 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 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 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-59 and silence through bars 60-61, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 38 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 34, 35, 42, 43, 51, 95 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
171 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
175 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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.
9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 34, 35, 42, 43, 51, 95 and 6 more.