111 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 26-45 and 51-111 -- 91% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
1
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
123 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.
43 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.
111 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.