121 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, 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 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, snare through bars 27-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66, silence through bars 67-74 and snare through bars 75-113, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 13 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
27 28
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|x-x-x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.