251 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 4:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-52, silence through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-74, hi-hat through bars 75-108 and silence through bars 109-111, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 21, and 33 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
21
1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-----------|
BD |------x-x---|11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 51, 59, 107, 127, 129, 164 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
168 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
251 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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.
11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 51, 59, 107, 127, 129, 164 and 13 more.