189 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-122, toms through bars 123-124 and snare through bars 125-189.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 11-21 and 23-29, and 22 more places -- 83.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 10, 43, 91 and 141.
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.
180 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.
39 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 10, 43, 91 and 141.