220 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-60, snare through bars 61-66, hi-hat through bars 67-127, toms through bars 128-138 and silence through bars 139-165, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 25 more places -- 44.4% 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---------------|6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 73 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
38 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
220 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 73 and 12 more.