123 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 13-63 and 72-98, and 1 more place -- 76.4% 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
HH |--x---x---x---o-|--x---x---x---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x------xx---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-----x-|
HF |----------------|x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
112 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.