113 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-20, toms through bars 21-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-28, toms through bars 29-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-50, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-5, 29-30 and 41-45, and 5 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |----------------|------------x---|
T2 |----------x---x-|------x---x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 85, 97 and 105.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
129 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.
38 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid 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.
4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 85, 97 and 105.