70 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-20, silence through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-70.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-70 -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
41
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------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 8 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.
113 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.
29 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
70 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.