128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
40 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 1-61, silence through bars 62-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-128.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-9 and 11, and 22 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----------------|----------x-----|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
95 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.
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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.