190 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28, toms through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-110 and kick and crashes through bars 111-128, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-25, 49-55 and 57-62, and 6 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 45 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
180 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.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
190 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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.
3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 45 and 4 more.