185 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, snare 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 1-8, snare through bars 9-48, ride through bars 49-64, snare through bars 65-104, ride through bars 105-120 and snare through bars 121-185.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64 and 105-120 -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
49
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |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 13 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.
128 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.