186 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-61, snare through bars 62-67, hi-hat through bars 68-109 and snare through bars 110-121, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-64, 66-67 and 110-112, and 4 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
62 63
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----x-----------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 49, 65, 73, 104, 105 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
41 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 49, 65, 73, 104, 105 and 4 more.