115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-115.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13-15 and 17, and 28 more places -- 43.5% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 65, 68, 69, 83, 84 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
88 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 65, 68, 69, 83, 84 and 2 more.