143 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-78, toms through bars 79-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-95, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-52, 57-78 and 81-83, and 7 more places -- 56.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 127, 128, 129 and 130.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
145 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.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 4 times: bars 127, 128, 129 and 130.