189 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
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 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, ride through bars 33-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-48, ride through bars 49-65 and silence through bars 66-72, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-30, 73-86 and 91-94, and 2 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|--x-x---------x-|4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 56, 64, 72, 88, 104 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
165 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.
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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 56, 64, 72, 88, 104 and 6 more.