102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on ride, snare, high tom and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-32, silence through bars 33-64, ride through bars 65-74, toms through bars 75-78 and ride through bars 79-102.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-102 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
79
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
120 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.
30 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
ride, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.