160 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-121 and snare through bars 122-128, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-55, 81-95 and 145-151 -- 23.3% 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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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-----|15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 36, 40, 56, 64, 76 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
190 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.
40 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 36, 40, 56, 64, 76 and 15 more.