205 bars at 247 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-204 -- 92.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
15
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---o---x---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
FT |----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.
247 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.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
205 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.