77 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-5, silence through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, silence through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and silence through bars 38-39, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 14-27 and 30-37, and 3 more places -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
14 15
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
132 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.
29 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.
77 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.