96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, silence through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-96.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 18 more places -- 73.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |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 5 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.
40 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.
96 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.