96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, silence through bars 50-73, kick and crashes through bars 74-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-96.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 20 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |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 12 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.
33 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.