115 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 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, hi-hat through bars 17-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, toms through bars 33-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-81, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 25 and 52-54, and 8 more places -- 36.1% 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---------------|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 67, 74, 75 and 83.
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.
180 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.
36 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
crash, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 67, 74, 75 and 83.