185 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 1-4, snare through bars 5-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-38, toms through bars 39-48, silence through bars 49-54 and snare through bars 55-69, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 56-62, 64-70 and 106-112, and 2 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
56 57
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x---|--x-x-----x-----|11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 89, 113, 121 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
155 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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.
11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 89, 113, 121 and 6 more.