343 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 8:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, snare through bars 28-36, toms through bars 37-39 and snare through bars 40-44, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 199-227, 229-235 and 237-245 -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
199
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-----|
BD |x---x-----x---------|14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 20, 30, 32 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
190 BPM, in 5/4, 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.
41 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
343 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 20, 30, 32 and 25 more.