62 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:54 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and snare through bars 42-62.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 and 42-61 -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
42
1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |r--r--r--r--r--r--x--r--|
BD |x--------------x--------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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 thirty-second 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.
42 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
62 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.