91 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, 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 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-51, hi-hat through bars 52-57 and snare through bars 58-59, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-42, 44-50 and 74-80, and 1 more place -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
36 37
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |X-x---x-----x-x-|--x-x-x---x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 15.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
164 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
91 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 15.