88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-57, ride through bars 58-69, snare through bars 70-85 and toms through bars 86-88.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 34-41 and 70-85 -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 86 and 87.
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.
100 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.
34 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 2 times: bars 86 and 87.