70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-35 and ride through bars 36-70.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 4 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
18 19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x-----x-x---x-|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 27, 35, 51 and 69.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
80 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.
38 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
70 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 27, 35, 51 and 69.