185 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40 and snare through bars 41-42, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 5 more places -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|
BD |x---------------|------------x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
169 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.
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.
185 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 21 more.