122 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 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.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-34, silence through bars 35-37 and ride through bars 38-42, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 25-33 and 48, and 8 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
48
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 74, 103 and 119.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
160 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 74, 103 and 119.