144 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-144.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-14, 18-46 and 50-63, and 4 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |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 5 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.
43 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.