130 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 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 2-14, snare through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-42, snare through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-59, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 27-32 and 34-39, and 7 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 42, 50, 66 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
165 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 42, 50, 66 and 10 more.