165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-72, hi-hat through bars 73-89 and snare through bars 90-105, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 25 more places -- 27.9% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 80, 97, 117 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
160 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 80, 97, 117 and 5 more.