145 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 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, hi-hat through bars 9-83, snare through bars 84-92, hi-hat through bars 93-98, toms through bars 99-105 and snare through bars 106-122, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-28 and 31-37, and 10 more places -- 52.6% 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---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 52, 82, 90, 122, 137 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
167 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.
36 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 6 sittings, about 31 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.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 52, 82, 90, 122, 137 and 1 more.