60 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:00 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
39 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 toms the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-60 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
29 30
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|------x---------|
T2 |x---x---------x-|--x---------x---|
FT |x---x---------x-|--x---------x---|
BD |--x---x---------|x---x-----x---x-|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
39 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
60 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, snare, 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.