133 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-17, silence through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-22, silence through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-45, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-83 and 114-129 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
68 69
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|----------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--------------x-|--x---x-x-x-----|
HF |------------x---|x---x---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 12, 44 and 91.
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.
156 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.
37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
133 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 12, 44 and 91.