121 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 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.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-32, snare through bars 33-49 and toms through bars 50-121.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-115 and 118 -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x-------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
193 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.