144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and snare through bars 69-84, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 29-35 and 37-43, and 8 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|----------------|6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 68, 76, 84, 108 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
160 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.
42 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 68, 76, 84, 108 and 4 more.