181 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-52 and snare through bars 53-63, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-24 and 51, and 4 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
51
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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.
176 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.
29 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.