146 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-11, silence through bars 12-17, snare through bars 18-19, silence through bars 20-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-47, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-41, 55-61 and 63-69, and 6 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
30
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 13 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.
30 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.