79 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-11 and toms through bars 12-79.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 35, and 10 more places -- 53.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
13 14
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------------|
T2 |------------------------|---------------x--x-----|
FT |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x--------x--|x--------x--x--------x--|6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 62, 66 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
115 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.
40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 62, 66 and 3 more.