97 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
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, hi-hat through bars 2-32, toms through bars 33-49, hi-hat through bars 50-64, snare through bars 65-80 and toms through bars 81-97.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 4 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.