182 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-178 and snare through bars 179-182.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 11-12 and 14-15, and 19 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 33, 49, 53 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
162 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.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
182 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 33, 49, 53 and 14 more.