105 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-75, ride through bars 76-87, hi-hat through bars 88-89, silence through bars 90-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-105.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-75, 88-89 and 98-105 -- 86.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------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 8 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.
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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.