138 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-26, silence through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-50 and silence through bars 51-58, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-37, 40-41 and 44-45, and 7 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
36 37
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |--x-x---x---x-x-|--------x-----x-|
BD |------x---x-----|x-----x-----x---|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 90, 98, 105, 106, 130 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
184 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.
38 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 90, 98, 105, 106, 130 and 1 more.