188 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-53, ride through bars 54-60, hi-hat through bars 61-102, ride through bars 103-108 and kick and crashes through bars 109-110, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 120-133 and 169-188 -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
120 121
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-o-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----------------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x-x-|----------------|5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 59, 60 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
116 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 how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
188 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 59, 60 and 10 more.