130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-130.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-30, 37-42 and 55-63, and 3 more places -- 62.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
19 20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-o-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------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 10 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.
150 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.
42 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.