128 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56 and snare through bars 57-64, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 17-23 and 33-39, and 6 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|----------------|
BD |x-----x---------|------x-x-----x-|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 128.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
150 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.
43 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.
128 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 128.