200 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-14 and 22-23, and 23 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----x---x-|12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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.
12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 45 more.