88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-26, ride through bars 27-41, hi-hat through bars 42-44, ride through bars 45-53 and snare through bars 54-61, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 27-34 and 45-52, and 1 more place -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
120 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.
36 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.