113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-76, toms through bars 77-78, snare through bars 79-80, toms through bars 81-82 and snare through bars 83-113.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-12, 14-20 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x------|xx-x----xx-x--x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.
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.
120 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.