70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8 and snare through bars 9-70.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-28, 31-37 and 39-70 -- 98.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx--x--|
HF |xxxgxgxxxxxgxgxg|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.
80 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 how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
70 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.