177 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35, ride through bars 36-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-40, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 121-144 and 161-175 -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
121 122
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
RD |----x-x-------x-|x-----x-x-------|
SD |x---x-x-----x---|----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------------|x-x-------x-----|4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 48, 72, 80, 88, 112 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
155 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 9 times: bars 24, 48, 72, 80, 88, 112 and 3 more.