156 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-88, hi-hat through bars 89-104 and silence through bars 105-124, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49 and 53, and 5 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x-x-|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
170 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.
42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
156 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 and 2 more.