213 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-38, ride through bars 39-44, hi-hat through bars 45-53, silence through bars 54-121 and toms through bars 122-128, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 154-159 and 174-177 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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SD |x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x-x-----x---x-x-x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
170 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.
27 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
213 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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.