156 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 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 9-17, toms through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, snare through bars 38-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-50, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 34-36 and 52, and 12 more places -- 24.5% 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---x-|12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 33, 46, 55 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
176 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.
43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
156 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 33, 46, 55 and 18 more.