130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-130.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-15, 18 and 20-23, and 19 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
14 15
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-x-----|x-------x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 17, 19, 40, 41, 44 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
99 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.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 17, 19, 40, 41, 44 and 7 more.