183 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-50, silence through bars 51-53, toms through bars 54-73, hi-hat through bars 74-113 and toms through bars 114-133, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 74-113 -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
74 75
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o---o---o---|o---o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |--------x------g|--------x------g|
BD |x-----x---------|--x-x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 22 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
133 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 how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
183 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 22 and 21 more.