173 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
41 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, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-37, silence through bars 38-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-72, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 12-37 and 46-60, and 10 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
14 15
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-------|
BD |x-----------x-x-|----x-----x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
140 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.
41 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.