92 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, silence through bars 27-30 and snare through bars 31-35, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 36-49 and 68-74, and 1 more place -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
36
1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
123 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.
44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
92 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.