153 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-47, snare through bars 48-64 and silence through bars 65-72, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24, 41-47 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 70.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 80, 88, 107, 108, 116 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
164 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.
44 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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.
7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 80, 88, 107, 108, 116 and 4 more.