181 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 8:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 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, hi-hat through bars 5-31, snare through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-47, snare through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-83, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-31 and 34-47, and 7 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 82 and 83.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
82 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.
41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 82 and 83.