80 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-26 and 64-71 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
19 20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-----x-|----------------|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x--x--x-|
BD |x-----xx--x-x---|--x-----x--x--x-|5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 29, 33, 35, 47 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
135 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.
37 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 29, 33, 35, 47 and 4 more.