183 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-100, snare through bars 101-105, hi-hat through bars 106-130, snare through bars 131-135 and hi-hat through bars 136-160, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-41, 43 and 45-46, and 41 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
36
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
130 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.
41 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
183 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.