176 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-54, ride through bars 55-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-64, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 12 and 16-17, and 14 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
8 9
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
SD |----------------|------------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-------x-------|9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 13, 53, 54, 59, 63 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
142 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.
31 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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.
9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 13, 53, 54, 59, 63 and 23 more.