115 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 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 9-24, silence through bars 25-39, hi-hat through bars 40-55, snare through bars 56-80 and kick and crashes through bars 81-96, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 2 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--x-----x-----gg|
BD |x---------------|----x-----------|9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 39, 40, 80, 87, 88, 92 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
154 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.
43 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 39, 40, 80, 87, 88, 92 and 9 more.