89 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
35 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, toms through bars 6-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-31, ride through bars 32-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-49, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-37, 74-79 and 86-88 -- 20.3% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
FT |x---x-x-----x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
162 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.
35 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
89 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.