79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and toms through bars 53-61, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 45-51, and 2 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 28, 52, 60, 61 and 69.
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.
90 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.
38 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.
79 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 4 sittings, about 32 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 28, 52, 60, 61 and 69.