234 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-72, silence through bars 73-127, ride through bars 128-130, silence through bars 131-144, snare through bars 145-224 and hi-hat through bars 225-232, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 72 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--------------x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---------|
HF |----------x-x---|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 142, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224 and 1 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.
170 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.
34 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
234 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 142, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224 and 1 more.