134 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-36, toms through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48, silence through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-54, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-36, 49-50 and 55-60, and 2 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
164 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.
30 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.