147 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 162 BPM, 2:43 of playing 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.
snare through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-53, silence through bars 54-56, snare through bars 57-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-98, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-49, 81-95 and 133-146 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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BD |x---x-----x-|5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 34, 50, 60, 80 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
162 BPM, in 3/4, 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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.
5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 34, 50, 60, 80 and 5 more.