162 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-39, snare through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-119, snare through bars 120-121 and hi-hat through bars 122-162.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-36 and 38-39, and 13 more places -- 88.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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BD |x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 40, 41, 120, 121 and 141.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
185 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.
30 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 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.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 40, 41, 120, 121 and 141.