84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-60, silence through bars 61-68 and toms through bars 69-84.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-44 and 69-84 -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |---------x------|----------x-----|
SD |----x----x--xxxx|xx--x--xxxx-xxxx|
T2 |----x-----------|----x-----------|
FT |x---------------|xx-----xxx------|
BD |x--x----x-------|--xx------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 9 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.
96 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.
44 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
84 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.