154 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-70, hi-hat through bars 71-98, silence through bars 99-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-154.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-64, 83-94 and 119-154 -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
35
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
140 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.
43 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.