96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on ride, snare, mid tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-47, 49-79 and 81-96 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
SD |r-------------r-|--r-r-------r---|
T2 |x-------------x-|--x-x-------x---|
BD |--------x-------|--------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
38 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.
96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.