108 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on snare, floor tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-75 and silence through bars 76-80, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31-35 and 37-39, and 8 more places -- 53.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
25 26
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
FT |x-----------------x-----|x-----------------x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------------x-----|x-----------------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
34 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
snare, floor tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.