112 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-36, toms through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24 and 41-56 -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
9 10
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-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-------x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
41 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
112 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.