144 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
toms through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-90, toms through bars 91-93, kick and crashes through bars 94-96 and silence through bars 97-111, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 29 and 33, and 25 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 23, 27, 31, 35, 38, 39 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
177 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 23, 27, 31, 35, 38, 39 and 20 more.