177 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-64, snare through bars 65-80 and silence through bars 81-96, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-64 and 145-176 -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 12, 132 and 140.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
123 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 4 times: bars 4, 12, 132 and 140.