159 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-38, snare through bars 39-62, hi-hat through bars 63-86 and snare through bars 87-104, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-44, 47-55 and 87-92, and 9 more places -- 35.8% 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-----------|13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 46, 58 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
172 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.
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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 30 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.
13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 46, 58 and 18 more.