138 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-40, silence through bars 41-43, snare through bars 44-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-78, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 44-50 and 52-82, and 3 more places -- 79.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 100.
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.
28 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 100.