119 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-51 and snare through bars 52-59, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 52-58, and 7 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
19 20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|------x---x---x-|6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 59, 66, 67 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
125 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.
40 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
119 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 59, 66, 67 and 7 more.