151 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:47 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 1-4, toms through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36 and toms through bars 37-42, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-28, and 6 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
23 24
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|x-x-x---x-x-|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 78, 102 and 150.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
151 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 78, 102 and 150.