144 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
31 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 10-47, snare through bars 48-53, hi-hat through bars 54-71, snare through bars 72-77 and kick and crashes through bars 78-89, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-60 and 62-64, and 12 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
54
1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x---x-x-----x-----|
SD |------------x---------x-|
BD |x-----x-----------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
146 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.
31 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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.