95 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-89 and ride through bars 90-95.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-35 and 37-40, and 7 more places -- 77.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 76, 88, 92 and 94.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
164 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.
44 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
95 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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.
5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 76, 88, 92 and 94.