237 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-58, silence through bars 59-122, snare through bars 123-145 and silence through bars 146-217, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-26 and 123-130 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
23 24
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |x-----g-----g-----gggggg|x-----g-----g-----g-g---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 218.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
237 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 218.