93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-24, silence through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-54, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 33-34 and 36-48, and 2 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
13
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
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 11 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.
108 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.
31 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
93 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.