121 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 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 5-8, ride through bars 9-13, silence through bars 14-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and ride through bars 41-45, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 37-39 and 49, and 12 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 112 and 120.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
141 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.
40 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 112 and 120.