146 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
28 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 1-33, snare through bars 34-51, hi-hat through bars 52-81, snare through bars 82-97, toms through bars 98-104 and snare through bars 105-117, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 11 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----------------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|--x-x---------x-|5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 81, 105 and 113.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
160 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.
28 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 81, 105 and 113.