164 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-45, snare through bars 46-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-89, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 38-44, and 9 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
22 23
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|----x-----------|3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 37, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
175 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.
31 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 37, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 11 more.