113 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 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, hi-hat through bars 9-27, ride through bars 28-33, silence through bars 34-39, snare through bars 40-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-48, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 41-47 and 49-51, and 12 more places -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 32, 63, 64 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
43 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.
113 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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.
4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 32, 63, 64 and 8 more.