160 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-52, hi-hat through bars 53-64 and snare through bars 65-88, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 8.
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.
200 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.
44 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.
160 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 2 times: bars 7 and 8.