97 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and toms through bars 65-73, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-47, 74-80 and 82-88, and 2 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
41 42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 73, 81, 89 and 95.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
145 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.
35 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 73, 81, 89 and 95.