84 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 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, toms through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, toms through bars 22-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-84.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 29 and 31, and 16 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------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.
138 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
84 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
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.