157 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:25 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.
silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-57, snare through bars 58-69, hi-hat through bars 70-81 and snare through bars 82-95, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-26, 28-42 and 44-46, and 9 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
14 15
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |------x-----x-xx|x-xxxxxxx-x-xxxx|
BD |xxxx-x---x------|-----------x----|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 81 and 157.
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.
142 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 3 times: bars 13, 81 and 157.