69 bars, 3:57, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-27, toms through bars 28-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-46, ride through bars 47-59 and toms through bars 60-69.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 13 more places -- 23.2% 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-x-x-xxxxxxxx|
T2 |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 17 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.
70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
69 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.