160 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-96, ride through bars 97-108, snare through bars 109-144 and ride through bars 145-155, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 29 and 32-33, and 41 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
26 27
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x-----x-----x-|----x-----x-----|
SD |--x-----------x-|----------x-----|
BD |--x-----x-----x-|----x-----x-----|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 158 and 159.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
200 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.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 158 and 159.