129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-41, silence through bars 42-48, snare through bars 49-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-95 and snare through bars 96-129.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-40 and 65-71, and 5 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|--x-x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|--x---x-------x-|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 72, 96 and 120.
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.
165 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.
41 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 6 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 72, 96 and 120.