81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-81.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 19, and 15 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x--x--x-|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 49 and 73.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
100 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.
44 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 49 and 73.