139 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 270 BPM, 2:50 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-44, snare through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-87, snare through bars 88-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-100, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-15, 17-18 and 20-21, and 10 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
14 15
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 45, 46, 58, 85, 88 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
270 BPM, in 8/4, 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.
30 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 45, 46, 58, 85, 88 and 2 more.