193 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-41, hi-hat through bars 42-73, snare through bars 74-105, hi-hat through bars 106-121 and kick and crashes through bars 122-123, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 5 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
260 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.
34 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
193 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.