68 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-49, silence through bars 50-52 and snare through bars 53-55, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55 and 58-68 -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
53
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-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 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.
120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
25 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
68 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.