SUPER SIMPLE DRUM

THE ROUTE · FOUR SEASONS · 160 BARS

A year, written down before you start it.

Fifty-two weeks, four seasons, forty bars each. Season 1 is playable now.

SEASON

1

Play your first song

Hi-hat, snare, kick, in that order. By the end you play a whole song front to back without the chart.

GRADE 1–4 · 40 BARS · WEEKS 1–13

YOUR PROGRESS0 / 31

SEASON

2

Twice as many notes

The same grooves at double the density — sixteenths under the hands, and the kick moving between them.

GRADE 5–6 · 40 BARS · WEEKS 14–26

IN PRODUCTION

SEASON

3

Loud, soft, and the left foot

Accents and ghost notes make a groove breathe. The left foot joins in and stops being dead weight.

GRADE 7–8 · 40 BARS · WEEKS 27–39

IN PRODUCTION

SEASON

4

Triplets, and every genre

The grid splits in three: shuffle, blues, jazz, latin. One year in, you can sit in with anyone.

GRADE 9 · 40 BARS · WEEKS 40–52

IN PRODUCTION

Five kinds of bar

GROOVEPlay along with one pattern, looped at three tempos.40–50s

DRILLRepeat one hand or foot exercise against a loop counter.30–45s

SONGLearn one step of a real song.45–58s

CHALLENGEThe tempo climbs each pass. Play until you drop.45–58s

FIXHear the wrong one, then hear the right one.15–25s

The number each skill is meant to reach by the end of a season — the grading syllabi's figures, not a feeling.

SKILL

S1

S2

S3

S4

Backbeat

80

110

130

160

Dense hi-hat

—

90

105

120

Singles — sparse

70

100

120

140

Singles — dense

—

70

90

110

Doubles — dense

—

70

85

100

Paradiddle — dense

—

70

90

105

Shuffle

—

—

100

130

Double kick

—

—

—

80