194 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-60 and snare through bars 61-76, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 43-58 and 61-76, and 4 more places -- 81% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
25
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |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 10 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.
166 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.
35 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.