97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-28, toms through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-45, silence through bars 46-77 and kick and crashes through bars 78-85, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 33-35 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 46.8% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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 18 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.
105 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.