164 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the toms the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-18, 21-34 and 37-50, and 7 more places -- 88.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|----x-x---x-x---|
SD |----------------|------x-x-x-x---|
T2 |----x-x-----x---|----------------|
FT |--------x-------|----------------|
BD |x---------------|x---------------|
HF |----------------|--------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 164.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
170 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.
32 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 164.