143 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:43 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3 and snare through bars 4-143.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-61, 89-103 and 105-119, and 2 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
47
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
42 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.