181 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-114, silence through bars 115-130, hi-hat through bars 131-171, silence through bars 172-179 and hi-hat through bars 180-181.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7-9 and 11, and 70 more places -- 48.1% 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-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 180 and 181.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
154 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 180 and 181.