136 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 19 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
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 12 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.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.