101 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-52, hi-hat through bars 53-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-101.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-28, 31-37 and 39-43, and 3 more places -- 62.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
115 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.