101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
29 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, ride through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-56, silence through bars 57-60 and ride through bars 61-84, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 12 more places -- 47.2% 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-|
BD |x-x-----xxx-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
107 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.
29 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 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.