85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-25, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 7-10 and 31-35, and 1 more place -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
120 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.
36 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.