108 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, snare through bars 42-44, hi-hat through bars 45-77, snare through bars 78-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-105, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-32, 53-68 and 81-96 -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|----------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
145 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.
37 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.
108 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.