72 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6 and snare through bars 7-72.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31 and 36 -- 2.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
31
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x-----x---x---|
SD |x-----x---------|
BD |x-x---x-----x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 6.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
145 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.
31 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.
crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 6.