80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-71, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17, and 14 more places -- 64.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |oxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T1 |---------------x|----------------|
T2 |-------x-x------|----------------|
FT |----------------|-----------x----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
84 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.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.