132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-70, silence through bars 71-81, hi-hat through bars 82-121 and ride through bars 122-130, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-34, and 9 more places -- 71% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
11
1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 127.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 127.