105 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-43, silence through bars 44-46 and snare through bars 47-71, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 11-12 and 14-15, and 20 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
8 9
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x-----x-----x-|x---x-----x-----|
SD |--x---x-------x-|--x-------x---x-|
BD |x-------x---x---|----x---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 24, 46, 72, 73, 74 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
140 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.
41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 24, 46, 72, 73, 74 and 6 more.