88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40 and silence through bars 41-42, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 25-28 and 33-36, and 5 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
25
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
100 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.
33 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.