120 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-84, silence through bars 85-88 and toms through bars 89-120.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-31, 33-51 and 53-67, and 6 more places -- 93.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------r-------|--------r-------|
FT |x-----x-x---x---|--x-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 6 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.
168 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.
39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.