120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 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, hi-hat through bars 9-72, silence through bars 73-80, snare through bars 81-88, hi-hat through bars 89-104 and snare through bars 105-120.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-72 and 89-120 -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
33
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
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 15 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.