151 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-148 and snare through bars 149-151.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 8 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
165 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
151 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.