88 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-41, snare through bars 42-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-88.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28 and 30, and 22 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
24
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-----xx|
BD |----x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 58 and 88.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
140 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.
34 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 58 and 88.