135 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 1-5, snare through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45 and snare through bars 46-51, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 15 more places -- 17.2% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 37, 45, 49, 55, 71 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
135 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 37, 45, 49, 55, 71 and 10 more.