211 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:02 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-12, silence through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47 and snare through bars 48-81, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 36, and 24 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
20 21
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---x-----|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 11.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
120 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.
33 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 11.