170 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41, ride through bars 42-57, snare through bars 58-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-81, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 82-96 and 98-103, and 6 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 97, 104, 105, 145, 152 and 153.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
199 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.
41 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 97, 104, 105, 145, 152 and 153.