61 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 1:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17, and 3 more places -- 41.1% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
156 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
61 bars, about 1:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.