201 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare 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 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-100, ride through bars 101-114, hi-hat through bars 115-130, ride through bars 131-146 and hi-hat through bars 147-201.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-83, 85-100 and 115-130, and 2 more places -- 81.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---o---|
SD |--x-----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 16 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
201 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.