101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-54, silence through bars 55-56, snare through bars 57-96, silence through bars 97-98 and snare through bars 99-101.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-53 and 77-95 -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
35
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x-x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 3, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 61.
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.
90 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.
37 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 3, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 61.