116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-100, silence through bars 101-108 and toms through bars 109-116.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-44 and 69-91 -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
21 22
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x--r--r-----r---|r--r--r-x---x---|
T1 |----------------|--------x---x---|
T2 |----------------|--------x---x---|
FT |x---------------|x---------------|
BD |x---------x---x-|x-------x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
140 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.
44 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.