156 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 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, hi-hat through bars 5-13, snare through bars 14-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39, silence through bars 40-42 and snare through bars 43-55, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 9 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
23 24
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-----------x-|----x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 26, 34, 50, 58, 66 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
165 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.
40 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
156 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 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.
8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 26, 34, 50, 58, 66 and 13 more.