216 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-64 and silence through bars 65-158, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41, and 4 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x---x-|6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 40 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
160 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
216 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 40 and 6 more.