101 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16, 25-32 and 49-60 -- 35.6% 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 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----r-------r---|----r-------r---|
BD |x---------------|----------------|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 39, 40, 67, 68, 84 and 92.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
110 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.
44 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 39, 40, 67, 68, 84 and 92.