133 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
ride through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, ride through bars 36-48, hi-hat through bars 49-51, ride through bars 52-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-99, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-46, 53-62 and 101-110, and 1 more place -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
37 38
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-------|--------x-------|
T2 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |----------------|------------x---|
BD |x---x-x-----x---|----x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 47, 63, 64, 111, 127 and 128.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
160 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
133 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 47, 63, 64, 111, 127 and 128.