161 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46, ride through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-65, silence through bars 66-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-130, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 13 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
53 54
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--------o-------|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-------x-----|6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 44, 46, 47, 48, 52 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
180 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.
40 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 44, 46, 47, 48, 52 and 11 more.