111 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
40 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, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-79, silence through bars 80-83, snare through bars 84-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-111.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 29-31 and 33-34, and 12 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
29 30
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x---x---|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
116 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.
40 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 13 more.