163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-34, snare through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-58, snare through bars 59-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-90, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-34, 43-50 and 52-58 -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 75, 91 and 162.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
160 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.
40 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 75, 91 and 162.