190 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, snare through bars 50-77, hi-hat through bars 78-110, silence through bars 111-141 and snare through bars 142-182, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 42-44, and 13 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|--x-x-------x---|5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 29, 33, 37 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
190 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 29, 33, 37 and 14 more.