116 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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.
snare through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73, snare through bars 74-114 and toms through bars 115-116.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-25, and 8 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-x---x---x---x-|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 40, 73, 80, 115 and 116.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
155 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 6 times: bars 33, 40, 73, 80, 115 and 116.