113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, silence through bars 7-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-113.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-22 and 31-34, and 5 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
80 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.