117 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-26, toms through bars 27-28 and silence through bars 29-30, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-55, 57-62 and 65-67, and 6 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
51 52
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 74, 75 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
168 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 74, 75 and 9 more.