104 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, 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 bar 1, snare through bars 2-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-35, toms through bars 36-39 and snare through bars 40-49, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-63 and 66-71 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
60 61
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
111 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.
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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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.
17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17 and 29 more.