99 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
40 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 1-32 and snare through bars 33-99.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 33-65 and 67, and 10 more places -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----------x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
40 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.