117 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 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 9-16, snare through bars 17-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50, snare through bars 51-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-66, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 43, and 11 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----x---x-|7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 41, 42, 50 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
130 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.
41 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 41, 42, 50 and 10 more.