141 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-141.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-47, 49 and 51, and 6 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
37 38
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------------|x-----------x---|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 83, 84, 85 and 86.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
27 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 83, 84, 85 and 86.