125 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-48, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-40, 69-75 and 111-118 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
33 34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|--x-----x-x--x--|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
125 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.
43 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.