121 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor 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.
snare through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-112 and snare through bars 113-121.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 13-14 and 16-17, and 20 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x-----x-|
T2 |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|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 7 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.
157 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.