68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-44, silence through bars 45-50 and snare through bars 51-68.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10 and 12, and 6 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x------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 21 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 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.
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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
68 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
ride, 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.