134 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-62 and ride through bars 63-68, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-21, 23-29 and 43-45, and 2 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
15 16
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|--x-x-----------|15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 14, 22, 30, 33, 34 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
158 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.
42 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 14, 22, 30, 33, 34 and 14 more.