169 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-65 and silence through bars 66-72, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 33-39, and 26 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 48, 88, 96, 120, 128 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
167 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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.
4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 48, 88, 96, 120, 128 and 3 more.