101 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33, silence through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-78, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-18 and 41-70 -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 71, 72 and 88.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
115 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.
36 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 71, 72 and 88.