138 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, snare through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-96 and snare through bars 97-138.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-55 and 73-95 -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |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 15 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.
180 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.
41 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.