124 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-124.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-40, 73-100 and 121-124 -- 54.2% 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 |--------------o-|
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.
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.
147 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.
34 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.
124 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.