95 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, toms through bars 25-26 and silence through bars 27-30, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 31-38 and 71-82, and 1 more place -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |------o-------o-|------o-------o-|
T1 |----------------|----x-------x---|
T2 |----x-------x---|----------------|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
HF |--------x-------|x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
125 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
95 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, 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.