91 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-30, hi-hat through bars 31-54 and ride through bars 55-91.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-71, 73-79 and 81-88 -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
55 56
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|----------------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 54, 72, 80, 89 and 90.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
148 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.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
91 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 5 times: bars 54, 72, 80, 89 and 90.