74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
36 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 5-45, toms through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-74.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-31, 34-40 and 42-45, and 3 more places -- 49.3% 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-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 74.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
90 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.
36 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
74 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 74.