131 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-35, snare through bars 36-52, silence through bars 53-55, hi-hat through bars 56-73 and snare through bars 74-89, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-51 and 74-89 -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 35 and 73.
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.
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.
37 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 2 times: bars 35 and 73.