177 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, toms through bars 21-38, hi-hat through bars 39-45, snare through bars 46-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-75, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 56-58, and 12 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
48
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
161 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.
37 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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.