143 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-35, snare through bars 36-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-65, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-67, 70-73 and 76-79, and 3 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
64
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 63.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
240 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 how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 63.