160 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-116, silence through bars 117-119 and hi-hat through bars 120-160.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-40, 43-49 and 52-57, and 19 more places -- 54.1% 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 |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 84, 143, 151 and 159.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
150 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.
41 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 84, 143, 151 and 159.