174 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-42, hi-hat through bars 43-94, silence through bars 95-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-174.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-89, 91-94 and 131-165, and 1 more place -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
75
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------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 24 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.
38 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
174 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.