156 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 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 2-18, silence through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-84 and snare through bars 85-88, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 39 and 41-45, and 15 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 37, 57, 65, 91, 92 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
44 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 34 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 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 37, 57, 65, 91, 92 and 4 more.