157 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 9-33, silence through bars 34-40, snare through bars 41-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and ride through bars 81-88, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 42, and 21 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----x---x-|5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 44, 48, 52, 60, 64 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.
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.
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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 44, 48, 52, 60, 64 and 9 more.