70 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, 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.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-46, toms through bars 47-62, ride through bars 63-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-70.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 21-27, and 2 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
155 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
70 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.