120 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, silence through bars 33-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-48, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-42, 49-51 and 53-54, and 7 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
41 42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 84 and 110.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 84 and 110.