202 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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.
silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, silence through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-41, snare through bars 42-65 and kick and crashes through bars 66-70, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 36 more places -- 21.5% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 33, 34, 50 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
156 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
202 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 33, 34, 50 and 32 more.