131 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-81, silence through bars 82-95, hi-hat through bars 96-119 and snare through bars 120-131.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 42-48 and 50-56, and 4 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
18 19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|----x-x---x---x-|2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 57, 103, 111 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 15 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 57, 103, 111 and 1 more.