65 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, snare and high tom.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-41, toms through bars 42-55 and snare through bars 56-65.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-23 and 26-39 -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
2 3
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
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SD |x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----x--x-----x--x--x--|x-----x-----xxxxxxx-----x-----x--x-----x--x--x--|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
65 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, snare and high tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.