141 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 164 BPM, 2:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37, ride through bars 38-53, snare through bars 54-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-104, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-20 and 22-32 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
6 7
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----------|------x---x-|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 33, 37, 85, 113, 114 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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 3/4, 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 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.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 33, 37, 85, 113, 114 and 9 more.