139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, snare through bars 59-82 and silence through bars 83-98, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 27-33 and 35-41, and 5 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
3 4
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
180 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.
38 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 4 more.