166 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-34, 55-78 and 91-106, and 2 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
HF |x-x-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 17 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.
30 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.