81 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, toms through bars 49-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-39, and 3 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---|----x-x---x-----|6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
164 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.
42 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 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.
6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 3 more.