108 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
34 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, snare through bars 9-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, snare through bars 57-80, hi-hat through bars 81-104 and snare through bars 105-108.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 12 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
110 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.
34 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.