114 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 2-57, snare through bars 58-73, toms through bars 74-89, snare through bars 90-105 and toms through bars 106-114.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-56 and 74-88 -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |---x--x--x--x--x--x--xxx|
BD |x-----------x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 89.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
42 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 89.