224 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-16 and snare through bars 17-32, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 20 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
65
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |xxx-x-xxx-x-----|11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 13, 14, 52, 60 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
180 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 13, 14, 52, 60 and 24 more.