72 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-70 and snare through bars 71-72.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-48 and 64-70 -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
33 34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x-x-x---|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|x-x-x-x-----x---|
FT |----------------|x-x-x-x---------|
BD |x-------x-x-----|----------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
115 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.
36 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.