124 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-96, silence through bars 97-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-124.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 21 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-----x-x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
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 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.
185 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.
31 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.
124 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
hi-hat, 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.