122 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22 and toms through bars 23-33, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 34-36, and 9 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
122 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.
43 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.