96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and silence through bars 57-68, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-21, 25-27 and 29, and 8 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxooxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxx-------|
SD |--------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 22 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.
106 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.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
96 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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.