65 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-41, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 22-25 and 28, and 6 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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 9 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.
110 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.
36 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
65 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.