95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-95.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 21-28 and 47-62 -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x---xx-xo-|
SD |----x-------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 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.
80 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.
34 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.
95 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.