124 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-97, silence through bars 98-101, hi-hat through bars 102-110, toms through bars 111-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-124.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-32 and 34-40, and 7 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 124.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
41 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 124.