131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-40, toms through bars 41-42 and snare through bars 43-47, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 28-29 and 31-32, and 18 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-x-|----x-----------|
BD |x---------x-----|--x---x-x-------|11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 30, 36, 38 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
108 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 30, 36, 38 and 14 more.