108 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
31 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 1-73, silence through bars 74-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-108.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-33 and 50-73 -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
18 19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----x-------x---|
RD |----x-------x---|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
147 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.
31 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.