146 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-52, toms through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-86 and snare through bars 87-102, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 11 more places -- 49.6% 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-x-------x-x-|5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 86, 102 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
170 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.
43 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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.
5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 86, 102 and 5 more.