88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-26, ride through bars 27-36, hi-hat through bars 37-50, ride through bars 51-58, snare through bars 59-60 and toms through bars 61-62, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-34, 51-58 and 71-86 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
27 28
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 26, 44, 50 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
44 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 26, 44, 50 and 2 more.