111 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, 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 1-8, snare through bars 9-23, hi-hat through bars 24-29, ride through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |----------x-----|
HF |x-------xx------|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 67, 72 and 111.
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.
119 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 67, 72 and 111.