117 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 3:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-54, ride through bars 55-68, hi-hat through bars 69-82, ride through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-117.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-22 and 25-32, and 9 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9
1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 20 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 3/4, 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.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.