68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-50 and silence through bars 51-56, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 29-50 and 57-68 -- 91.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |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 5 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.
108 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.
25 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
68 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 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.