79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-25, silence through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 43-45 and 55-61, and 2 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
14 15
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-o-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-------x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 24, 41, 42, 54, 62 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
100 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.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 24, 41, 42, 54, 62 and 2 more.