101 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36 and ride through bars 37-101.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-35 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-x-x---|
SD |--------x-------|------x---------|
BD |x---------------|x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 76, 84, 92 and 100.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
115 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 76, 84, 92 and 100.