88 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, silence through bars 48-56, hi-hat through bars 57-66 and silence through bars 67-85, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 19 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
160 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 how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.