128 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
39 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 9-25, silence through bars 26-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-65 and silence through bars 66-72, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24, 41-56 and 81-96, and 2 more places -- 68.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|----x-----x-----|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 80 and 104.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
158 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.
39 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 80 and 104.