245 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 5:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, silence through bars 43-45, snare through bars 46-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-49, 51-53 and 55-56, and 11 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
47 48
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x---x---|
SD |------xx--x-x---|x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----x-|----x---x---x---|11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
196 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.
44 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
245 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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.
11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 more.