165 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-33, silence through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-37, toms through bars 38-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 54, and 14 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
54
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 48, 49, 57, 87, 88, 89 and 12 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.
176 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 48, 49, 57, 87, 88, 89 and 12 more.