148 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-49, hi-hat through bars 50-52 and snare through bars 53-60, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 37, and 21 more places -- 34.9% 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-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 128 and 132.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
168 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 128 and 132.