76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and ride through bars 57-76.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-24 and 41-54 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|X-x-x-x-x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |X---------------|X---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
90 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.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.