81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-77, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22, 24-26 and 28-29, and 6 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
24 25
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x-xxxx|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 21 and 65.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 21 and 65.