124 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-90, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-21, 23-25 and 27, and 4 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|x---x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 72, 73 and 74.
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.
150 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 72, 73 and 74.