147 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-57, silence through bars 58-63, snare through bars 64-90, hi-hat through bars 91-92, snare through bars 93-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-118, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-53, 55 and 65-69, and 11 more places -- 83.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
180 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.
33 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.