79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20 and snare through bars 21-79.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27 and 30-78 -- 75.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
21
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|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.
85 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.
28 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.