96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-22 and kick and crashes through bars 23-25, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 15-16 and 19-20, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
7 8
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x----x|x-x--xx--xx-----|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 85.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
77 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.
39 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
96 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 85.