176 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare 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, hi-hat through bars 17-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-114, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-46, 49-64 and 69-114, and 3 more places -- 85.6% 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---|
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 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.
158 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.