62 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 139 BPM, 1:20 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-62.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-62 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
49
1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
139 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
27 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
62 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare 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.