129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-32 and snare through bars 33-129.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 9 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
49 50
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-----xx--------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
95 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.
42 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.