181 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-47, toms through bars 48-49, ride through bars 50-106, snare through bars 107-130 and ride through bars 131-179, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 21 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 88, 92, 130 and 180.
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.
126 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.
39 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 88, 92, 130 and 180.