177 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-54, snare through bars 55-75, hi-hat through bars 76-92, toms through bars 93-94 and snare through bars 95-108, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57 and 59, and 4 more places -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--x-x---x---x-x-|
BD |------x---------|11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 40 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
180 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.
41 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 40 and 22 more.