194 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 2-3, silence through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-42 and silence through bars 43-45, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 48 and 50, and 50 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
48
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 53, 75, 91, 93, 101 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
43 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 53, 75, 91, 93, 101 and 12 more.