76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
40 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, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-36 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
90 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.
40 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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.