165 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-20 and kick and crashes through bars 21-30, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54, 56-58 and 60-62, and 14 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
56 57
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-o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |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 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.
128 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.
32 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.