137 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
34 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, kick and crashes through bars 10-25, toms through bars 26-33, silence through bars 34-41, toms through bars 42-73 and silence through bars 74-81, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-49, 82-96 and 98, and 4 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
42 43
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |------------x---|------------x---|
T2 |x-----x-x-------|--x-----x-------|
FT |x-----x-x---x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |x-----------x---|----------------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 137.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
34 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
137 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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 2 times: bars 97 and 137.