66 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:39 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-17, silence through bars 18-34, snare through bars 35-50, silence through bars 51-53 and snare through bars 54-66.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-50 -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
35
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |---x---x---x---x|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
37 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
66 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.