202 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, silence through bars 15-24, hi-hat through bars 25-144, silence through bars 145-152 and hi-hat through bars 153-202.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43-56 and 65-105, and 9 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
41
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
176 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
202 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.