109 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
32 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 62-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-109.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 37-44 and 78-93 -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--------x---o---|
BD |x---x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
150 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.
32 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.