165 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 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 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-56, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19, 21 and 35-41, and 10 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
35 36
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 42, 57, 58, 87, 112, 113 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
171 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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.
7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 42, 57, 58, 87, 112, 113 and 9 more.