80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-31, snare through bars 32-34, toms through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-80.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-48, 50-51 and 53-54 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
44 45
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x-x---------|x---x-x---------|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 36, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
100 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.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 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.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 36, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 2 more.