207 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-49, silence through bars 50-51, snare through bars 52-101, silence through bars 102-108 and ride through bars 109-120, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-67, 70-83 and 86-88, and 12 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-----x-----------------|6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 52, 68, 84, 100, 124, 130 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
43 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
207 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 52, 68, 84, 100, 124, 130 and 3 more.