132 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, silence through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-40 and silence through bars 41-44, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x-x-|9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 32, 52, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
174 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 32, 52, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.