158 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
41 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 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-39, silence through bars 40-46 and snare through bars 47-54, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 128-142 and 144, and 3 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
35
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
185 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.
41 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 7 more.