138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 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, ride through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-56, ride through bars 57-74 and snare through bars 75-138.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 14 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
43 44
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x---x-x---x-x-x-|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 93, 97, 99 and 138.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
100 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.
37 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 93, 97, 99 and 138.