159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-120, toms through bars 121-122, snare through bars 123-146, toms through bars 147-148 and snare through bars 149-159.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 63-65, and 7 more places -- 27% 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---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 94 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.
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.
42 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 94 and 5 more.