126 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 175 BPM, 4:18 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, toms through bars 41-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84 and silence through bars 85-126.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28 and 41-60 -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |------------f-------f---|
FT |X-X---X---------f-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-----x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
175 BPM, in 6/4, 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.
35 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.
126 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.