77 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 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 5-20, snare through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and snare through bars 53-77.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 53-67 and 69-75 -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-x---x---x---x-|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 48, 51, 52, 68 and 76.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 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 6 times: bars 44, 48, 51, 52, 68 and 76.