81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45 and toms through bars 46-81.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 13-24 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |x---x---x---x---|
T1 |-------------x--|
T2 |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|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.
100 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.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.