231 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 6:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-45, and 24 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 111, 115 and 119, and 5 more places -- 4.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
111
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----------|14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 66 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
170 BPM, in 5/4, 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.
41 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
231 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 66 and 45 more.