140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-23, snare through bars 24-35, hi-hat through bars 36-60 and snare through bars 61-70, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48, 52 and 81-85, and 9 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
101
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
39 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.