176 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-49, snare through bars 50-66, hi-hat through bars 67-93 and kick and crashes through bars 94-96, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-34, 37-46 and 51, and 20 more places -- 61.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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BD |x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 47, 93, 125, 127 and 144.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
168 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.
38 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 47, 93, 125, 127 and 144.