243 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 3-14, snare through bars 15-28, silence through bars 29-62, hi-hat through bars 63-98, ride through bars 99-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-115, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 63, 71-77 and 85-91, and 6 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
71 72
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-------x-----|x-------------xx|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----------------|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 94, 138, 170, 178, 184, 203 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
243 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 94, 138, 170, 178, 184, 203 and 2 more.