93 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-93.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 20 and 22, and 16 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
12
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |----X-------x---|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 72.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
158 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.
43 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
93 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 72.