137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51, toms through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-55, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-23, 28-39 and 44-47, and 4 more places -- 47.8% 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-----|
HH |--o---o-------o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 137.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
97 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.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
137 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 137.