198 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:03 of playing on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-41, silence through bars 42-45, toms through bars 46-89, silence through bars 90-93 and toms through bars 94-142, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 34-36 and 46-52, and 14 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
26 27
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |------------|x-----------|
FT |x-----x-----|--------x---|
BD |x-----x-----|--------x---|7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29, 37, 53 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
180 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29, 37, 53 and 17 more.