152 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-8, toms through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-64, ride through bars 65-67 and snare through bars 68-75, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 43, and 13 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
39
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x---x-----|
BD |--x-----------x-|10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 45, 53, 55, 59, 81, 83 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
210 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.
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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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.
10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 45, 53, 55, 59, 81, 83 and 18 more.